CVENT technology is developed in accordance to the medical needs and will lead in a commercial product ready for clinical practice. The CVENT photoacoustic imaging system will provide a revolutionary diagnostic approach for screening, in-depth diagnosis and monitoring of carotid plaque vulnerability.

Breakthrough

CVENT will develop a compact, easy to use, non-invasive, point-of-care multimodality and multi-wavelength functional photoacoustic (PA) imaging system for quantitative diagnosis and monitoring of carotid plaque vulnerability. The system combines multimodality imaging with ultrasound (US) resolution and the functional imaging of multiwavelength light. The main effort is dedicated to reach a breakthrough in functional photoacoustic imaging to extract morphological features from the multi-wavelength PA/US data to receive functional information of plaques in the carotid artery.

Photoacoustic imaging

Photoacoustic imaging has the potential for functional imaging of plaque material but still has limited imaging depth.

The main goal of the CVENT consortium is the development of a portable multimodality, multiwavelength photoacoustic imaging system with a hand-held PA/US probe for screening, in-depth diagnosis and treatment monitoring of carotid plaque vulnerability by means of plaque: composition and structure, size and shape, as well as mechanical properties.