DOTmed Health Care Business – FDA Gives Green Light to Kent Imaging’s Perfusion Imaging Device, SnapshotNIR
The portable, hand-held device can collect data in less than a second using a variety of health applications, to provide physicians with simplified diagnostic readings and insights for analysis on the best course of treatment before, during and after clinical and surgical care.
Don Chapman, executive chairman at Kent Imaging, told HCB News, “As a low-cost, easy-to-use imaging device, it is completely noninvasive, eliminating the need for contact or injected dyes (required by traditional technologies) and instantly capturing diagnostic insight into the viability of tissue in many applications.”
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About SnapshotNIR:
ACTIONABLE, ACCURATE DATA
THE POWER OF DIAGNOSTIC-DRIVEN WOUND CARE IS IN YOUR HANDS
Chronic wounds are a health problem with significant reductions in quality of life and can have devastating consequences such as limb amputations and premature death. Current diagnostic tools to assess tissue health are either costly or difficult to employ (or both), and visual assessment alone is not adequate to see the whole picture. Historically there have been no easy or cost-effective ways to directly assess tissue viability. SnapshotNIR is a medical imaging device that visualizes and maps tissue oxygen saturation in the capillary network.
SnapshotNIR has features that expand the application of near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) to include imaging on almost all skin tones, advancing tissue assessment for physicians and patients. The device measures tissue oxygen saturation (StO2), oxyhemoglobin and deoxyhemoglobin in nearly all individuals at any location on the body. With the unique Hemoglobin View, providers can track the wound healing trends, to ensure that oxyhemoglobin increases, while deoxyhemoglobin decreases.
Read about the current stage of the device.
About Kent Imaging:
Kent Imaging, located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, is a leading innovator in near-infrared tissue oxygenation imaging, which develops, manufactures, and markets medical technology that supports real-time decision-making in wound care, vascular and surgical subspecialties. Kent holds multiple patents in oxygen imaging technology and continues to provide innovative and advanced diagnostic imaging solutions to aid healthcare systems nationally and internationally.