Some good publicity and recognition can help new technology make its way to market – and RTI International hopes to cash in on that combination at the American College of Cardiology meeting next week in San Francisco.
On Friday, RTI announced that a cutting-edge catheter its scientists have deloped which delivers live 3-D ultrasound images from inside the heart has received one of three innovation awards at the Cardiovascular Research Technologies annual symposium.
It’s called “live volumetric image,” or LVI for short.
And RTI is looking for partners interested in helping take LVI to market.
“The goal is to enable better image guidance to improve accuracy and reduce complications for procedures that are done today with limited direct visualization of the tissue,” said David Dausch, Ph.D., a senior research engineer at RTI who is the lead inventor of the technology.
“We believe LVI can enable imaging of full cardiac volumes from within the heart, with high frame rate to capture cardiac dynamics, and resolution sufficient to clearly visualize endocardial structures and track therapeutic tools during interventional procedures.”
RTI also unveiled a YouTuber video about the technology.
The catheter includes a “matrix transducer array” made through semiconductor fabrication techniques. It is located at the top of a catheter that, when inserted into the heart, creates acoustic signals that are processed by an ultrasound system to create the 3-D images.
More information about LVI can be found at a related RTO website.
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