BIOPHAN LICENSES TECHNOLOGY FOR MRI VISUALIZATION INSIDE STENTS

Biophan Technologies finalized an exclusive license with two German biomedical researchers for their stent technology enabling accurate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in or around metallic stents.

The new technology developed at the Radiology Department of Professor Gunther at the University Hospital in Aachen, Germany, by Arno Bucker and Alexander Ruebben uses a special design and material. The imaging of stent interiors by traditional X-ray angiography requires an invasive procedure and only allows visualization of the vessel lumen. Biophan's newly licensed solution is designed to enable noninvasive, safer, less costly and more useful MRI-based imaging of stent interiors and the adjacent vessel walls.

Together with the existing technologies already held by Biophan, including those obtained through its recent acquisition of aMRIs, the exclusive license will give Biophan licensing ownership to two methods to create artifact-free images of stents and implants with MRI systems.