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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2015
Bayer Medical Care Inc, Indianola, PA (US);
Paul J. Miller, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
James H. Shigeno, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Jared E. Neff, New Kensington, PA (US);
Leon J. Tate, Cranberry Township, PA (US);
Joseph E. Bisegna, Cheswick, PA (US);
Edward Ilgenfritz, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Scott R. Griffith, Murrysville, PA (US);
Brandon Ripley, San Francisco, CA (US);
BAYER HEALTHCARE LLC, Whippany, NJ (US);
Abstract
A fluid path set for a fluid delivery system includes a tube coil that is designed to optimally position one or more volumes of a pharmaceutical within an ionization chamber to measure and prepare a pharmaceutical dose for administration to a patient. Methods for priming at least a portion of the fluid path set include placing a tubing section of the fluid path set in fluid connection with a source of a radiopharmaceutical, and placing the tube coil within a dose calibrator of the fluid delivery system. A volume of the radiopharmaceutical may be pumped through the tube coil, the tubing section, and an additional tubing section, and the dose calibrator may be monitored to determine if a measured activity level is substantially equal to or above a predetermined activity level, and if so, it may be concluded that the tubing section of the fluid path set has been primed.