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Imaging The World, Corp.

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2579 LAKE RD CHARLOTTE, VT 05445 Get Directions

(206) 200-7560

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  • Founded 2011
  • Incorporated VT
  • Annual Revenue $500,000.00
  • Employee Count 5
  • Industries Medical Research
  • Contacts Kristen Destigter

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How it began

After long days performing ultrasound exams on the border of Kenya and Sudan, ITW co-founder and radiologist, Dr. Kristen DeStigter, who had traveled to this remote area as part of a research team investigating a parasitic disease, packed up her ultrasound research materials to participate with her colleagues in an impromptu health clinic, conducting physical exams. Each day, she found that they were taking the ultrasound machine back out to help with difficult diagnoses. Using ultrasound they discovered significant problems, such as placenta previa in late pregnancy. They were able to counsel patients to get to a healthcare facility where they could get appropriate, lifesaving treatment. She began to consider how one could make ultrasound accessible to people in need in the most remote areas of the world, but at that time in the early 1990's, lack of resources and trained personnel in areas like this made it impossible to make diagnostic imaging available for critical diagnoses.

In the late 1990's, Dr. DeStigter carried a portable ultrasound prototype to Honduras after Hurricane Mitch as part of a medical outreach team. In addition to the typical conditions evaluated by ultrasound, she found that she could assess many other problems that were not traditionally evaluated by ultrasound. In addition, the doctors with whom she worked found that, with ultrasound available as part of their outreach clinic, they could render more accurate diagnoses and work more efficiently. This focused effort was successful, but she knew that traditional methods of ultrasound outreach were simply not sustainable to make a difference for the community in the long-term.

Inspired use of conventional technology

Over the years, Dr. DeStigter considered the problem of bringing a permanent ultrasound solution to the most rural areas of the world. In 2007, she began working with Dr. Brian Garra, who had been promoting volume scans for ultrasound diagnosis since 2001 and whose research interests include digital signal processing, quantitative ultrasound, and elastography. He proposed that they use entirely new ultrasound protocols using volume scanning to reduce the amount of operator training needed while still maintaining high diagnostic quality. Volume scans replace each still ultrasound image with a series of images that are gathered by sweeping the transducer across the organ or body area of interest.

Unlike static images, providing only a few sample images of each organ, volume scanning provides one image every millimeter. This eliminates the need for physician scanning, allowing a trained machine operator to gather images without knowledge of internal anatomy. The image sets are sent via cell phone to the internet where expert readers anywhere in the world can interpret the scans. Working together, Drs. DeStigter and Garra started an organization to distribute this unique technology worldwide and Imaging the World was founded to offer highly accurate ultrasound diagnosis anywhere a cell phone signal is available

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