METHODS, DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR SENSING, MEASURING AND/OR CHARACTERIZING VESSEL AND/OR LESION COMPLIANCE AND/OR ELASTANCE CHANGES DURING VASCULAR PROCEDURES

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APP PUB NO 20160183808A1
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14831441

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The present system is directed in various embodiments to methods, devices and systems for sensing, measuring and evaluating compliance and/or elastance in a bodily conduit. In other embodiments, the methods, devices and systems sense, measure, determine, display and/or interpret compliance and/or elastance in a bodily conduit and/or a lesion within the bodily conduit using fractional flow reserve and/or flow velocity measurements as well as resistance to flow calculations in certain embodiments. In all embodiments, the sensing, measuring, determining, displaying and/or interpreting may occur before, during and/or after a procedure performed within the bodily conduit. An exemplary conduit comprises a blood vessel and an exemplary procedure comprises a vascular procedure such as atherectomy, angioplasty, stent placement and/or biovascular scaffolding.

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CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS INC651 CAMPUS DRIVE ST PAUL MN 55112

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Higgins, Joseph P Minnetonka, US 43 524
Kohler, Robert E Lake Elmo, US 17 705

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