Ultrasound Technology for Counting Emboli

Luna Innovations Inc., a company out of Roanoke, Virginia, announced its new medical device that uses quantitative ultrasound technology to count emboli in the blood stream noninvasively. Emboli can take the form of solid matter or air bubbles that can enter the blood stream during invasive medical procedures, which may result in neurological or neuropsychological postoperative deficits and fatalities.
Luna Innovation’s Embolus Detection and Classification Quantifier (EDAC Quantifier) system detects individual microemboli at rates up to 1000 per second using advanced ultrasound technology. “Employing missile tracking algorithms originally developed for the defense industry, the system is designed to provide cardiothoracic surgeons, perfusionists and anesthesiologists with an accurate rate of emboli in the blood circuit.”
The EDAC Quantifier system is a system that quantifies the emboli rates in ex-vivo circuits in real-time and is PC-based. It also can provide readings for time motion representation of individual emboli tracks, emboli rate displayed over five minutes, and cumulative emboli counts from the start of monitoring.
The initial release of EDAC Quantifier system is for investigational use only.
The press release…
EDAC Quantifier’s product page…