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Wireless soft robots for in vivo mucus property measurement

Summary The material properties of mucus, such as viscosity and pH, provide information about the well-being of various organ systems. To improve accessibility to mucus sites from throughout the body and increase the validity of measurements, Vanderbilt researchers have developed a wireless millimeter-scale soft robot for direct and accurate mucus sensing...

Published: 12/19/2024 | Inventor(s):

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Category(s): Medical Devices

Silicone Airway Stent with Wirelessly Actuated Cilia for Mucus Removal

Summary Various widespread diseases associated with airway constriction can be combatted using airway stents. However, such stents are either prone to clogging themselves or tend to invade neighboring tissue. Vanderbilt engineers have developed a technology that avoids both of these pitfalls by combining the use of tissue-friendly silicone with active...

Published: 11/21/2024 | Inventor(s):

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Category(s): Medical Devices

Head Motion Correction with Soft Pressure Pad for MRI Scans

Addressed Need Head motion remains a major challenge during medical imaging scans, particularly in pediatric and older patient populations. Motion impacts diagnostic image quality, costing both time and money in the clinical setting. In research, motion artifacts can introduce errors into quantitative measurements, especially in high-resolution or...

Published: 9/24/2024 | Inventor(s):

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Category(s): Medical Devices, Medical Imaging

ML-powered software for planning sleep apnea surgery

Addressed Need OSA is a common sleep disorder associated with daytime fatigue and cardiovascular disease. As many as half of OSA patients reject first-line treatments that use positive airway pressure, necessitating surgical intervention instead. Drug-induced sleep endoscopy (DISE), the current standard for selecting OSA surgical procedures, is expensive,...

Published: 9/18/2024 | Inventor(s):

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Category(s): Computer Science & Communications, Medical Devices

Highly maneuverable radiation protection for interventional radiology

Summary An interdisciplinary team of Vanderbilt doctors and engineers has designed a more user-friendly mounting system for radiation protection shields that maintains a high level of protection from hazardous scattered radiation without impeding the workflow of interventional radiologists. Addressed Need Scattered ionizing radiation poses a significant...

Published: 9/12/2024 | Inventor(s):

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Category(s): Medical Devices, Medical Imaging

Method and System for Automating Oxygen Monitoring and Dosing in Real Time for Patient on Oxygen Therapy

Summary Vanderbilt researcher, Lisa Lancaster, MD, has developed a novel device to monitor the flow as well as adjust actively the levels of oxygen that pass to a patient suffering from Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis or other causes of hypoxic lung disease. Standing out of the pack, this device ensures that patients exerting themselves are given...

Published: 12/3/2021 | Inventor(s):

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Category(s): Medical Devices

No-touch Breast Implant Placement Device

Summary Vanderbilt researchers have developed a breast implant placement device that minimizes potential contaminants during surgery by requiring no contact between the surgeon and the implant during insertion. Addressed Need Infection following breast implant surgery is the leading cause of morbidity for the procedure. Infection can also lead to...

Published: 2/25/2022 | Inventor(s):

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Category(s): Medical Devices

Surgical Guide for Intraoral Vertical Ramus Osteotomy

Summary Vanderbilt researchers have developed a novel surgical guide for intraoral vertical ramus osteotomy (IVRO) that helps to preserve the proximal segment medial pterygoid attachment and avoid injury to the inferior alveolar neurovascular bundle during the procedure. Addressed Need While IVRO techniques are useful in many different surgical applications,...

Published: 12/6/2021 | Inventor(s):

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Category(s): Medical Devices

PIQASO: A rigid phantom for comprehensive end-to-end evaluation of online adaptive radiotherapy systems

Summary There is currently no radiotherapy phantom capable of quantitatively assessing all components of an online adaptive radiotherapy (online ART) system in a comprehensive end-to-end test. Represented here is a novel, rigid phantom that can simultaneously evaluate an online ART system’s image acquisition, deformable image registration, contour...

Published: 8/10/2021 | Inventor(s):

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Category(s): Diagnostics, Medical Devices, Medical Imaging

Intuitive, Magnetic, Robotic Platform for Minimally-Invasive Surgery

Summary Inventors at Vanderbilt University have developed a robotic platform capable of guaranteeing a degree of agility, mechanical stability, power, reliability, comparable to a standard robotic platform for laparoscopic surgery, but characterized by a much lower invasiveness. Addressed Need In the field of robotic surgery there is strongly required...

Published: 7/26/2021 | Inventor(s):

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Category(s): Medical Devices, Robotics

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