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Note for the Press

| November 23, 2020
Sono-Coat B.V. has developed Sono-Coat®; an innovative echogenic coating system to improve the ultrasound visibility of medical devices in the body. The Sono-Coat® technology is based on a coating matrix containing acoustically reflective microspheres. The microspheres scatter the ultrasound waves in all directions. The enhanced reflection leads to crystal clear and sharp images on the …

Multiple Applications

| November 23, 2020
The Sono-Coat® technology can be applied to a large variety of medical devices: the P-series coating system specifically developed for Polyurethane, Nylon, PEBAX, PEEK, PVC, and Polysilicon devices and the M-Series for Steel, Titanium, Nitinol and Ceramic based devices Sono-Coat® is biocompatible, temperature resistant, and can be overcoated with lubricious, anti-microbial and anti-thrombogenic coatings without …

A New Standard

| November 23, 2020
The NICE study published in GIE compares the ultrasound visibility of a Sono-Coat® needle and 8 commonly used echogenic needles. The Sono-Coat® needle outperformed (p<0.01) all other echogenic needles and was ranked number 1 in ultrasound visibility during a blind review by 60 interventional clinicians