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US 2008/0167638 A1Published application
Method and Apparatus for Delivering Pharmaceuticals Based on Real-Time Monitoring of Tissue States
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsGuillermo A. Cecchi, James R. Kozloski, Ravishankar Rao
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for delivering a drug to a bodily tissue, measuring the interaction between the drug and a specific tissue in real-time, and adjusting the rate of drug delivery in real-time in order to achieve a desired state of drug-tissue interaction are disclosed herein.
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A method for delivering a drug to a bodily tissue, comprising
- delivering a drug to a patient;
- measuring an interaction between the drug and a bodily tissue in real-time;
- and
- adjusting a rate of drug delivery to the patient in real-time based on the measurement.
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An apparatus for delivering a drug to a bodily tissue, comprising:
- a delivery mechanism for a drug;
- a measuring device for measuring a state of a bodily tissue;
- and
- an information handling device for computing an amount of drug to be delivered given a current tissue state measurement and a desired tissue state.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.