Volcano Corporation, a provider of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and functional measurement (FM) products designed to enhance the diagnosis and treatment of vascular and structural heart disease, announced today that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of CardioSpectra, Inc.
QPC Lasers, Inc., announced today release of the Ultra-500, a new product family based on its proprietary semiconductor laser chip technology that offers increased power and industry leading brightness for medical surgical, high power defense, and industrial micro-welding applications. The Company has won multiple orders for the new product and recently shipped initial units to customers.
What are the defining discoveries and great developments that are shaping the way we use materials and technologies today? Elsevier¡¦s Materials Today magazine has compiled a list of the top ten most significant advances in materials science over the last 50 years.
Metrologic Instruments, Inc. today announced the release of the IS4920, a miniature mega-pixel imaging engine with a hardware decoder. Original equipment manufacturers (OEM) can easily integrate the high-performance engine into a wide range of devices whose applications demand robust omnidirectional scanning of 1D and 2D bar codes.
Johns Hopkins scientists have by chance discovered that a widely used means of illuminating cancer cells could undermine studies of the potential value of experimental anti-cancer drugs because the natural ¡§pump¡¨ that cells use to clear out the chemical light source alters their chemistry.
People troubled by depression usually experience their dark moods in an on-again, off-again fashion. In that respect, seasonal affective disorder (SAD) differs only in that the oscillations follow a seasonal schedule, with the depression usually starting in the fall and lasting through the spring. Lack of light is often blamed for SAD, but just how darker days cause depression in SAD sufferers is still in question, reports the January 2008 issue of the Harvard Health Letter.
The perfusion of a burn injury can now rapidly be determined by using a new technique developed by scientists of the University of Twente. Using the perfusion image made by a laser and an ultra fast camera, doctors will be able to determine whether a burn needs surgery.
Detection and treatment of tumours, diseased blood vessels and other soft-tissue conditions could be significantly improved, thanks to an innovative imaging system being developed that uses both light and sound.
Novadaq(R) Technologies Inc., a developer of real-time medical imaging systems and image guided therapies for the operating room, today announced that it is the recipient of the Frost & Sullivan North American Medical Imaging Product of the Year award for its SPY(R) Intra-operative Imaging System. Novadaq company executives were recognized during Frost & Sullivan's 2007 Excellence in Healthcare Opportunities Award Banquet held December 5th, 2007 in Orlando, Florida.
Photonic Products, the UK optoelectronics device manufacturer and laser diode specialist, has announced the introduction of two new, high power, infrared wavelength GaAlaS laser diodes from Opnext, Inc. The HL8337MG and the HL8338MG are ideal as light sources for industrial and medical sensor applications and as a light source for various other types of optical equipment such as distance meters, barcode scanners and high resolution CTP.
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