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Direct 3D printing of two-component silicone

The ProblemFacial/body prostheses are often required for patients who have lost facial/body parts, such as an ear, nose, eye, finger, hand or breast. These defects can result from trauma, congenital malformations or diseases such as cancer. Improvements in medicine, surgical techniques and in particular cancer survival rates are resulting in increasing...

Published: 11/22/2016 | Updated: 11/22/2016 | Inventor(s): Trevor Coward, Jim Smay, Swati Jindal, Mark Waters

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Category(s): Biomaterials, Medical devices

Reducing Artifacts in Gradient-Echo MRI using Novel Radiofrequency Pulses

ProblemGradient-echo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is used extensively to reveal the structure, and measure the function, of different areas of the body. One particularly exciting application is functional MRI, which can be used to produce maps of brain activity in a subject performing a mental task. Unfortunately signal dropout, caused by differences...

Published: 11/22/2016 | Updated: 11/22/2016 | Inventor(s): Stephen Wastling, Gareth Barker

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Category(s): Medical devices, Diagnostics

Counterfeit Drug Detection

Non-invasive, non-destructive authentication of packaged medicinesSafe Medicines, Good Health: In 2013, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) adopted a resolution (A/HRC/RES12/24) on access to medicines that stressed “the responsibility of States to ensure access to all, without discrimination, of medicines, in particular essential medicines,...

Published: 11/22/2016 | Updated: 11/22/2016 | Inventor(s):

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Category(s): Medical devices, Physical Sciences

Non-Ionising Imaging

Technology OverviewThe technology uses light at a given near infrared wavelength [NIR] to create a transmission image of dental caries (decay). Healthy hard tissues (enamel, dentine and cementum) tend to ‘guide’ light of this wavelength, leading to a bright image, whereas decay and other inhomogeneities cause optical scattering. This produces...

Published: 11/22/2016 | Updated: 8/5/2014 | Inventor(s): Christopher Longbottom, John Girkin, Simon Poland

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Category(s): Medical devices, Diagnostics

Method to identify bioburden in a root canal following preparation

The ProblemBacteria remaining in the root canal (RC) space at the time of completion of a root canal treatment (RCT) can lead to a persistent or secondary infection, which requires revision of the treatment. Currently, there are no methods in widespread use to detect bacterial presence within the root canal space in a fast and reliable manner. Such...

Published: 11/22/2016 | Updated: 8/5/2014 | Inventor(s): Federico Foschi, Timothy Watson, Frederic Festy, Richard Cook, Garrit Koller, Francesco Mannocci

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Category(s): Medical devices, Diagnostics

Imaging of Unstable Atherosclerotic Plaque via a Novel Magnetic Resonance (MR) Contrast Agent

The ProblemHeart attack (acute myocardial infarction) is predominantly caused by plaque in blood vessels rupturing or eroding. Biological processes found to be associated with plaque progression and destabilization are inflammation, outward vessel wall remodelling and dysfunctional matrix synthesis and degradation. The majority of plaques causing...

Published: 11/22/2016 | Updated: 8/5/2014 | Inventor(s): Rene Botnar, Alkystis Phinikaridou

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Category(s): Diagnostics, Medical devices

Saliva Guard (Xerostomia Device)

ProblemDebilitating oral dryness (Xeorstomia) is a common, poorly treated component of orofacial cancer radio/chemotherapy and of Sjogren’s disease (an age-related onset auto-immune condition). A device is needed to enhance patient quality of life by reducing pain, ameliorating swallowing difficulty and rampant decay while improving speech and...

Published: 11/22/2016 | Updated: 8/5/2014 | Inventor(s): Timothy Watson, Richard Cook, Garrit Koller

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Category(s): Medical devices

Segment Based MR-Compatible catheter steering mechanism

The ProblemIncreasingly clinicians are using cardiac ablation to cure atrial fibrillation. During cardiac ablation, energy is delivered through a catheter to areas of the heart muscle causing the abnormal heart rhythm. This energy “disconnects” the pathway of the abnormal rhythm. Recently, the procedures have been extended to more complex...

Published: 11/22/2016 | Updated: 7/18/2014 | Inventor(s): Kawaldeep Rhode, Tobias Schaeffter, Asghar Ataollahi, Kaspar Althoefer

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Category(s): Medical devices

Composites for Bone Replacement and Bone Scaffolds

The ProblemA large proportion of orthopaedic surgical procedures require bone grafts and with the growing demands there still remains a need to design synthetic bone graft that mimics the structure and composition of bone with good surgical handling properties. The SolutionThe project team has developed a completely synthetic composite which incorporates...

Published: 11/22/2016 | Updated: 7/18/2014 | Inventor(s): Sanjukta Deb, Evren Kemal, Clare Gleeson

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Category(s): Biomaterials, Medical devices

Optical endoscope for vascular imaging and concurrent oximetry instrument for non surgical tissue vascular assessment.

TechnologyA clinic based optical instrument that allows a doctor to examine the blood supply to a particular tissue, without need for surgical biopsy. Based on multiple wavelength analysis of light reflected by sub-cutaneous fatty layers, this instrument will allow high-resolution video-rate mapping of capillary blood flow and oxygen carriage from the...

Published: 11/22/2016 | Updated: 5/8/2014 | Inventor(s): Richard Cook, Timothy Watson, Frederic Festy

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Category(s): Medical devices