US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on Oct. 6 for "Method and apparatus for measuring intravascular blood flow using a backscattering contrast" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,639, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Method and apparatus for measuring intravascular blood flow using a backscattering contrast" was invented by Brett E. Bouma (Quincy, Mass.) and Nestor Uribe-Patarroyo (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus including: an imaging system; a probe for insertion into a vessel, the probe being coupled to the imaging system; a flow delivery system associated with the probe to release a differential-contrast fluid into the vessel at a location proximal to an end of the probe; and a processor to: collect data from the imaging system based on rel...