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An ultraminiature sensor from Samba Sensors is suitable for use in pressure catheters.
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Contract manufacturer Raumedic AG (Münchberg, Germany) and fibre-optic sensor specialist Samba Sensors AB (Göteborg, Sweden) have joined efforts to develop catheters that incorporate fibre-optic pressure-monitoring technology. The collaboration will focus on catheters for preclinical and MRI imaging applications.
Each firm brings a unique set of skills to the partnership. Samba Sensors’s ultraminiature sensing technology is what caught Raumedic’s eye, according to Raumedic R&D director Christian von Falkenhausen. “Samba’s fibre-based technology is extremely small and robust,” he notes. “It will allow us to pursue new business opportunities in the high-tech catheter [market].”
As for Samba Sensors, it saw in Raumedic an opportunity to take its technology to the next level. “Raumedic possesses all the front-line capabilities and resources needed to integrate our sensor technology into catheters,” says president Lennart Nilsson. It also has a first-rate production facility that can accommodate large-scale manufacturing, he adds.
Raumedic has already developed a catheter incorporating a multiparameter sensor that is used for neuromonitoring. “It’s the only catheter on the market that combines the parameters of pressure, oxygen, and temperature in one probe,” explains von Falkenhausen.
Sensing technology currently available from Samba Sensors can be used for preclinical applications such as measuring blood pressure, intracranial pressure, and intervertebral disc pressure, as well as for various clinical applications. Founded to commercialize a pressure sensor developed at Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden, the sensor company has developed transducer technologies, with an emphasis on ultraminiature catheters, for the past decade.
For more information, contact Christian von Falkenhausen, Raumedic AG, Hermann-Staudinger-Str. 2, 95233 Helmbrechts, Germany; phone: +49 9252 3591739; e-mail: christian.von.falkenhausen @raumedic.com; Internet: www.raumedic.com; or contact Lennart Nilsson, Samba Sensor AB, Gruvgatan 6, 42130 Göteborg, Sweden; phone: +46 31704 9160; fax: +46 31704 9164; e-mail: lennart.nilsson@samba.se; Internet: www.samba.se.
