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Joris Jaspers is the head of the Development & Clinical Physics department of the University Medical 
Centre (UMC) in
He has a background in Mechanical Engineering and over 12 years of experience in academic medical centres (AMC Amsterdam and UMC Utrecht), where he has developed medical instruments, managed development projects, did a PhD study on surgical instruments and worked as a medical device specialist for the Tech Transfer Offices of the AMC and UMC, where he assisted researchers in commercialising their inventions.
The Vasculuminator, blood vessel imaging system to facilitate vessel punctures
The Vasculuminator is a practical blood vessel viewing system, based on near-infrared (NIR) trans-illumination. It has been developed to improve the procedure of puncturing veins in small children, which is a difficult task to perform. The vasculuminator is successfully clinically introduced in the Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital (WKZ) of the University Medical Centre in Utrecht. In a clinical study was shown that the failure rate of a puncture for blood withdrawal dropped from 13% to 2%. Clinical studies on other applications are ongoing.
A new prototype has been developed and will become commercially available due to a cooperation of the UMC Utrecht and Medavinci Health Care Services.
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