Patent ID: 11904029
Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PATENT FOUNDATION
Field: Pharmaceuticals (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 16:
17. A method for determining an amount of therapeutic microspheres to provide to a body of a patient, the method comprising: providing a population of imageable microspheres in accordance with claim 1; delivering the population of imageable microspheres to the patient by introducing the population of imageable microspheres to a first position in a vasculature of the patient; allowing the population of imageable microspheres to distribute within the body of the patient; determining a distribution of at least a portion of the population of the imageable microspheres within the body of the patient by imaging a portion of the body of the patient using an imaging modality; and using the distribution of the imageable microspheres to calculate an amount of therapeutic microspheres to be delivered to the body of the patient.