The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has chosen MAUI Imaging for a $4 million trauma medicine contract that will include the company's computed echo tomography (CET) system.
The goal of this work is to improve and speed up diagnosis and interventional care in high-volume and/or resource-limited environments, MAUI said. The firm will present a poster describing its imaging technology and its potential use in trauma diagnosis and triage at the 2024 Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS), which will be held August 26 to 29 in Florida at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.
The trauma medicine project will incorporate MAUI's CET system, which the company describes as a cross between ultrasound and CT, which doesn't use ionizing radiation. The system pings the designated part of the human body, seeing anatomy beyond what other ultrasound systems can see, then uses proprietary patented algorithms to create an image of the structures below the probe.
The CET system features a concave probe that fires pulses into the tissue from different angles, allowing it to "see" through and around barriers. It also uses large datasets that can be sliced into "an infinite number" of images, according to the firm.
For the DoD program, MAUI's CET system will be used to improve time-to-care in trauma patients, improving outcomes as military patients receive treatments while in the field, naval vessels, and evacuation aircraft. While phase 0 was completed in June, establishing a baseline performance for the system, phase I will focus on developing the procedures and techniques for using the system to image these anatomic regions in a standardized fashion. Phase II will focus on comparative imaging of actual trauma pathology in the emergency department.
