OmniGuide

OmniGuide Inc.
Private
Industry Medical devices
Founded 2000
Headquarters Cambridge, Massachusetts
Key people
 Scott Flora, President & CEO
Website

OmniGuide, Inc. is a private medical device company developing and commercializing minimally-invasive surgical tools.[1] Founded in 2000,[2] OmniGuide's manufacturing facilities and executive offices are located in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA. The Company’s manufacturing plant, located at OmniGuide’s headquarters in Lexington, Massachusetts, has manufacturing processes that provide the capability to manufacture fibers with semiconductor level tolerances and microscopic layers in a scalable manner.

Technology

The technology is based on the revolutionary photonic bandgap fiber invented at MIT, published in Nature and Science and subsequently licensed exclusively to the company.[3] The first flexible fiber-optic surgical scalpel capable of delivering CO2 laser light has been developed using this technology.[1][4]

References

  1. 1 2 Browd, Samuel R.; Zauberman, Jacob; Karandikar, Mahesh; Ojemann, Jeffery G.; Avellino, Anthony M.; Ellenbogen, Richard G. (2009). "A new fiber-mediated carbon dioxide laser facilitates pediatric spinal cord detethering". Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics. 4 (3): 280–4. doi:10.3171/2009.4.PEDS08349. PMID 19772415.
  2. ↑ http://www.mrsec.org/industry/omniguide-inc/
  3. ↑ http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/omniguide.html
  4. ↑ Anandasabapathy, S.; Maru, D.; Klumpp, S.; Uthamanthil, R.; Borne, A.; Bhutani, M. (2009). "Novel endoscopic application of a new flexible-fiber CO2laser for esophageal mucosal ablation in a porcine model". Endoscopy. 41 (2): 138–42. doi:10.1055/s-0028-1103482. PMID 19214893.
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