Imagify™ Designed for Sustained Real-time Imaging
Cardiologists have sought to enhance ultrasound images using intravenously administered gas bubbles derived from agitated saline for decades as a means to track blood flow from the right ventricle of the heart.Gas is an efficient reflector of ultrasound energy but its clinical utility has been limited as gas bubbles dissolve quickly in the blood and do not persist long enough to permit enhanced imaging of other parts of the heart.
Acusphere has solved this problem by encapsulating the gas bubbles in a porous microsphere made of synthetic polymers which slows gas dissolution and protects the bubbles from the pressure from the ultrasound wave. Imagify™'s with a synthetic polymer shell enable sustained ultrasound images capable of generating perfusion data for the diagnosis of CAD.
- Imagify™ microsphere properties are designed for prolonged image enhancement
- increased mechanical strength and durability
- improved echogenicity
- decreased shadowing
- Imagify™ microspheres have been assessed in echocardiography with rest and stress techniques
- Imagify™ microspheres are biocompatible and contamination free