AN ECHOGENIC COATING FOR ULTRASOUND IMAGING OF MEDICAL DEVICES IN DEEP TISSUE LAYERS

An echogenic coating composition on a medical device to be inserted into a body at depths greater than 5 cm includes: (i) a polymer matrix and (ii) an amount of ultrasound-reflective microparticles having a diameter that is at least 10 and at most 250 μm in size, with a defined relationship between...

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Hauptverfasser: AYRES, Lee, BREEK, Hendricus Philip, LIN, Yiyuan
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Zusammenfassung:An echogenic coating composition on a medical device to be inserted into a body at depths greater than 5 cm includes: (i) a polymer matrix and (ii) an amount of ultrasound-reflective microparticles having a diameter that is at least 10 and at most 250 μm in size, with a defined relationship between the particle size, expressed as D50, and the surface density. A method for ultrasound detection of a medical device at a scan depth greater than 5 cm includes: providing the medical device with the echogenic coating composition and to an echogenic assembly including the medical device and a convex probe.