ULTRASOUND BLOOD-FLOW MONITORING
    33.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220151586A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-19

    申请号:US16967813

    申请日:2019-02-07

    Abstract: The invention provides a method for monitoring or predicting the onset or progression of a disease or pathological condition and/or a response to treatment in an infant vertebrate animal subject, wherein said method uses unfocused ultrasound pulses to determine a characteristic of blood flow within the brain of the subject and said characteristic or the profile of said characteristic over time is indicative or predictive of the disease or pathological condition or response to treatment, or variation in said characteristic or the profile of said characteristic over time is indicative or predictive of the disease or pathological condition, or indicative or predictive of a change in the disease or pathological condition or response to treatment.

    Immunosuppressive agents and their use in therapy

    公开(公告)号:US11246907B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-02-15

    申请号:US16683188

    申请日:2019-11-13

    Inventor: Marit Otterlei

    Abstract: The present invention provides an agent, or composition containing an agent, for use in treating or preventing hypercytokinemia in a subject resulting from cytokine release from non-proliferating immune cells in blood, wherein the agent comprises:
    (i) an oligopeptidic compound comprising a PCNA interacting motif and a domain that facilitates the cellular uptake of said compound, wherein the PCNA interacting motif is X1X2X3X4X5 (SEQ ID NO: 1) and wherein:
    X1 is a basic amino acid;
    X2 is an aromatic amino acid;
    X3 is an uncharged amino acid other than an aromatic amino acid, Glycine (G) and Proline (P);
    X4 is any amino acid other than Proline (P), an acidic amino acid or an aromatic amino acid; and
    X5 is a basic amino acid or Proline (P); or
    (ii) a nucleic acid molecule comprising a sequence encoding the oligopeptidic compound of (i).
    In certain aspects the agent and compositions of the invention may be used as single agents. In other aspects of the invention agents and compositions of the invention may be used in conjunction with one or more additional active agents, such as kinase inhibitors.

    ULTRASOUND BLOOD-FLOW MONITORING
    35.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20210251599A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-19

    申请号:US16967929

    申请日:2019-02-07

    Abstract: The invention provides a method of monitoring blood flow in a vertebrate animal subject. Unfocussed plane-wave ultrasound pulses are transmitted into the subject, along a transmission axis, from a single-element ultrasound transducer (2) fastened to the subject (5). Reflections of the ultrasound pulses are received, generating a succession of pulse-Doppler response signals over time. Each pulse-Doppler response signal is processed to determine a first respective spatial-maximum velocity value for blood flowing towards the single transducer element (2), and a second respective spatial-maximum velocity value for blood flowing away. Heartbeats are identified from said spatial-maximum velocity values and a quality metric is assigned to each identified heartbeat. A subset of the spatial-maximum velocity values is identified for which the assigned quality metric exceeds a threshold level. The values from the subset are monitored, and, when a set of values from the subset satisfies a predetermined alert criterion an audible or visual alert is signalled.

    Enhanced-resolution ultrasound imaging of fluid paths

    公开(公告)号:US11071516B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-27

    申请号:US16329568

    申请日:2017-09-01

    Abstract: An ultrasound imaging method in which ultrasound signals are transmitted into a living organism, reflected from fluid flowing along a path within the organism, and received by an ultrasound transceiver system with a resolution limit in a first direction. These signals are used to generate data representing a sequence of images over time; each image including a speckle pattern arising from interference within the reflected ultrasound signals. A peak-sharpening operation is applied to the image data, generating data representing a sequence of resolution-enhanced images, each having a resolution in the first direction finer than the resolution limit of the transceiver system in that direction, and including a respective peak-sharpened speckle pattern. A combining operation is applied to generate data representing an output image in which the path of the fluid is represented by a superimposition of the peak-sharpened speckle patterns from the resolution-enhanced images.

    ICING CONTROL SYSTEM
    39.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190202568A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-04

    申请号:US16326762

    申请日:2017-08-22

    CPC classification number: B64D15/22 B64C39/024 B64C2201/00 B64D15/12

    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for determining if icing has occurred on a surface of an aircraft, the method comprising: heating a surface of an air craft, after the heating has stopped, measuring the temperature of the surface as it cools, and determining if icing has occurred on the surface in dependence on the measured temperature. Advantageously, embodiments provide improved techniques for the detection of icing and the prevention, or mitigation, of icing when it has formed. Embodiments are particularly advantageous when implemented on small UAVs in civilian applications for which autonomous and energy efficient operation is particularly important.

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