IIT Madras develops device to access health, age of blood vessels

Called ARTSENS®, it is designed such that it can be used in routine medical examination by even non-experts, to assess and predict vascular health.  

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras researchers have developed a novel, non-invasive device to assess the health and age of blood vessels and thereby provide early screening for cardiovascular diseases. 

Called ARTSENS®, it is designed such that it can be used in routine medical examination by even non-experts, to assess and predict vascular health. It is powered by a proprietary non-imaging probe and an intelligent computing platform and is developed by the Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre (HTIC) at IIT Madras. 

The device has been assessed on more than 5,000 human subjects. The technology already has five utility patents in the US, European Union and India, 10 design patents and awaits awarding of 28 patents in various jurisdictions. 

The product is ready for technology transfer and commercialisation after extensive testing. The IIT Madras team intends to deploy this to conduct over a million vascular screenings per year. The technology and field results of this device has already been published in over 100 scientific peer-reviewed publications. 

The research was led by Jayaraj Joseph, Assistant Professor, Department of’Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras. He said, “Reliable assessment of vascular health requires a measurement to be performed directly on the blood vessel walls and not on the skin surface. Our ARTSENS device can assess the effect of molecular and protein level changes in the vessel wall caused due to disease and ageing, by measuring the material property in a completely non-invasive and accurate manner.” 

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