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A NOvel FFR Measurement fOR accurate dEtermination of stenosis Functional severity in ischemic hEARt disease

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Medis medical imaging systems BV (MEDIS), with 25 years of experience in medical imaging, will introduce a novel imaging-based biomarker as an accurate proxy for functional stenosis severity, creating a breakthrough in the treatment of ischemic heart disease (IHD). This non-invasive imaging algorithm should replace the current standard of using a vascular pressure wire to measure the Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) - a measure for the physiologic significance of a coronary obstruction on the basis of which the interventional cardiologist decides whether an obstruction needs to be treated with stent placement, or otherwise should be left untreated.

Using pressure-wire FFR is risky, time consuming, costly, associated with additional X-ray radiation, not always accurate and not applicable in highly curved arteries. MEDIS has developed a functional prototype of its imaging algorithm (FFRQCA) that accurately calculates the FFR from readily available 2D X-ray images through 3D reconstruction, advanced image processing algorithms and computational fluid dynamics. In a direct comparison with the current standard, this novel approach showed excellent diagnostic accuracy of 88%. Efforts to further optimise the technology are currently ongoing: a multi-centre investigator-driven trial is being carried out across 2 European countries, the US and China.

In this Stage 1 SME Instrument project, MEDIS will investigate the commercial feasibility of this innovation that has already sparked enthusiasm amongst interventional cardiologists worldwide.

Aufforderung zur Vorschlagseinreichung

H2020-SMEInst-2014-2015

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Unterauftrag

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014

Koordinator

MEDIS MEDICAL IMAGING SYSTEMS BV
Netto-EU-Beitrag
€ 50 000,00
Adresse
SCHUTTERSVELD 9
2316 XG LEIDEN
Niederlande

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Die Organisation definierte sich zum Zeitpunkt der Unterzeichnung der Finanzhilfevereinbarung selbst als KMU (Kleine und mittlere Unternehmen).

Ja
Region
West-Nederland Zuid-Holland Agglomeratie Leiden en Bollenstreek
Aktivitätstyp
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
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Gesamtkosten
€ 71 429,00