Worcester Polytechnic Institute;University of Massachusetts
发明人:
Dennis Giaya,Rebecca Stolarczyk,Yitzhak Mendelson,Arriyan Samandar Dowlatshahi,Raymond Dunn
申请号：
US15488364
公开号：
US20170296139A1
申请日:
2017.04.14
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2017
代理人:
摘要：
The present invention relates to devices and methods for measuring vascular deficiency using Doppler ultrasound detection. Embodiments can be used to monitor the condition of surgical tissue flaps or other conditions in which obstruction in the vascular system can impact patient health. The systems can include a Doppler ultrasound probe, a color probe, a temperature probe, and/or other suitable probes to measure blood volume and perfusion status of a tissue region. The systems and methods can be used to monitor flaps after flap transplant surgeries. The systems and methods can automatedly assess tissue condition and alert the patient or medical staff if the condition has fallen below a threshold indicating occlusion of a blood vessel. One or more additional sensors can be integrated into a probe to measure vascular conditions and a metric can be computed based on sensed data.
