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Article: California, Georgia, Illinois Inventors Develop Dynamically Monitoring Ultra-Low Pressures
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- July 12, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 12 -- Lid B. Wong and Hua Mao, both of San Diego, Kim SangKyung and Peter Hesketh, both of Atlanta, and Donovan B. Yeates of Chicago, have developed the measurement of physiological function in living animals.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring low dynamic pressures in confined spaces, such system comprising a catheter, a multilayered corrugated membrane of diameter less than 2 mm with a reflective inner layer mounted within said catheter; a set of optical fibers comprising one or more illuminating fibers and two or more detecting fibers which are contained within said catheter and whose ends are set at differing distances ...