IP Requirements:

• Emory IP

Experience Requirements:

• Mechanical Design

Interventional radiology (IR) and image-guided medicine (IGM) continue to impact patients throughout the world. Advanced imaging has revolutionized the ability to reach a target. Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) has increased in use and ubiquity. It has become standard practice for patients with venous disease/stenosis. This can include: May-Thurner Syndrome, Nutcracker Syndrome, Superior Vena Cava (SVC) Syndrome, TIPS Stent Restenosis. The challenge with IVUS is an ergonomic one – no wireless form of IVUS exists and the tethered cable makes sterility and technique challenge.

 The tethering has the potential to result in dislodgement of the wire or IVUS catheter and contamination/loss of sterility/loss of expensive equipment. An ideal solution would be vendor agnostic (all forms of IVUS) and help in any OR or angiosuite situation where a device is tethered by a cable or wire (such as intracardiac echo). An ideal solution will be reproducible, safe, and effective. It should be low cost, scalable, and deliverable across the country. The team will be encouraged to observe procedures in our new state-of-the-art operation at the Winship at Emory Midtown Tower and at the renowned Emory University Hospital and Emory University Hospital Midtown campuses and to think about how this solution can be democratized to move from the subspecialty care of world renown medical centers to community practices to address health inequity through novel devices.