Patent ID: 8280484

Claim:
An occlusion monitoring device, comprising: an interrogation energy emitter component; a sensor component, the sensor component configured to detect at least one of an emitted energy or a remitted energy, determine at least one spatial dependence and at least one temporal dependence associated with an occlusion in an artery, a blood clot formation in a blood vessel, an embolus, or a blood clot formation in a deep vein within the biological subject under test, predict the onset of an obstruction in blood vessel, and generate a first response based on a detected at least one of the emitted energy or the remitted energy, the first response indicative of at least one physical parameter associated with the at least one spatial dependence and the at least one temporal dependence of the occlusion in an artery, the blood clot formation in a blood vessel, the embolus, or the blood clot formation in a deep vein within the biological subject under test; and one or more non-transitory computer-readable memory media having blood vessel spectral occlusion information configured as a data structure, the data structure including a spectral signature information section having at least one of embolus spectral information, arterial embolus spectral information, thrombus spectral information, deep vein thrombus spectral information, or blood component spectral information; the sensor component including one or more computing devices configured to determine the at least one spatial dependence and the at least one temporal dependence associated with the occlusion in an artery, the blood clot formation in a blood vessel, the embolus, or the blood clot formation in a deep vein within the biological subject under test based on the comparison of the detected emitted energy or a remitted energy and the blood vessel spectral occlusion information configured as the data structure.