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“ There are a few circumstances where mapping the posterior surface is also useful, for example, in post-LASIK cataract surgery intraocular lens calculations, where measuring the anterior surface alone is not sufficient to really accurately measure the net corneal power. ”

“ Confocal microscopy of the cornea has been around for a long time but it still doesn’t have a lot of specificity in looking at microorganisms...Some sort of in vivo staining or fluorescence that allows us to really distinguish infections or microorganisms with confocal imaging would be great ”

“ OCT is also becoming enormously important in diagnosing and understanding cardiac disease as well as understanding diseases of the windpipe...We're still funding work to study airway injury in windpipes due to smoke inhalation or chemical inhalation. And again, we're using OCT to do that. ”

“ The goal is to get this in the hands of physicians who can learn about OCT and then practice, using our simulation techniques. ”

“ Combining OCT with a balloon deployment system provides an improved platform for angioplasty balloon development and can also be used in the development of next-generation minimally invasive devices for percutaneous -- through the skin -- coronary interventions...It's now possible to monitor balloon inflation within an artery phantom (model) or an excised artery to assess the efficiency of innovative balloon angioplasty or stent deployment procedures. ”

“ OCT can be used for a variety of organs, but ovarian cancer caught my attention because it is such a devastating disease...It is a challenge because the ovaries are inside the body and there is no screening technique that works well and most women don’t have any symptoms until it is very advanced...So if we want to look at them with OCT you would have to get right up against the ovary. That won’t work in the general population, but there is a group of women who have high risk of ovarian cancer doctors often recommend removing them. Now that might not be a difficult decision to make in your 60s but that is a terrible decision to have to make in your 20s. Our idea is that if we could tell with certainty the ovaries were normal then that woman could keep her ovaries and just be screened every couple of years. ”

“ We continued to drive growth in both our intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and Functional Measurement (FM) businesses, which grew 25 and 51 percent year-over-year, respectively. In the quarter, overall IVUS disposable revenues increased 29 percent versus the prior year, and our FM business increased 50 percent in both the U.S. and Europe...During the quarter, we introduced significant enhancements to our IVUS and FM disposables and our multi-modality console operating software, and commenced the European launch of our VIBE RX Vascular Imaging Catheter. In addition, we completed a number of cases utilizing the latest version of our Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) catheter and system. ”

“ We continued to drive growth in both our intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and Functional Measurement (FM) businesses, which grew 25 and 51 percent year-over-year, respectively. In the quarter, overall IVUS disposable revenues increased 29 percent versus the prior year, and our FM business increased 50 percent in both the U.S. and Europe...During the quarter, we introduced significant enhancements to our IVUS and FM disposables and our multi-modality console operating software, and commenced the European launch of our VIBE RX Vascular Imaging Catheter. In addition, we completed a number of cases utilizing the latest version of our Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) catheter and system. ”

“ The difference in quality between an OCT image and an IVUS image has been described as analogous to the difference between an analog black-and-white television with a rabbit ear antenna and a digital color television with an high-definition image...We think OCT has the potential to obsolete IVUS imaging in the practices of many physicians. ”

“ St. Jude Medical has made significant investments in the interventional cardiology space, including the coronary assessment and more recently the coronary imaging markets....From clinical research to important product advancements, Radi Medical Systems and now St. Jude Medical have contributed considerably to the success of this marketplace. As a company that values the innovations we bring to the marketplace, we intend to protect our intellectual property. ”

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