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News Release from: Michelson Diagnostics
Edited by the Laboratorytalk Editorial
Team on 16 June 2006
Medical scanner project awarded LDA
grant
Start-up company Michelson Diagnostics has been awarded a £140k grant for research and development by the London Development Agency
The SE-London based company will use the funding to support the development of a prototype medical scanner to be used in lung cancer surgery Michelson Diagnostics aims to address the huge potential market for a noninvasive alternative to surgical biopsy in many clinical applications such as lung, cervical, oesophageal and skin cancer
This article was originally published on Laboratorytalk on 13 Apr 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Michelson Diagnostics has announced the EX1301 OCT microscope, which provides high-resolution sub-surface images from much deeper into the sample than is possible with conventional microscopes
Applications director Gordon McKenzie said: "Clinicians we are working with are very excited that by using our equipment, they will be able to see the tell-tale signs of tumour growth without causing the patient the pain and stress of a biopsy".
The technology is based on optical coherence tomography and enables images of sub-surface tissue structure to be captured and displayed at far higher resolution than available from ultrasound, PET or MRI scanners.
The prototype will be used to demonstrate that real-time images of clinical quality can be obtained.
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