Stripe

MedTech & Life Science

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Overview

“Medtech R&D productivity is being undermined by a range of deep-seated changes in the healthcare industry. Companies that underestimate this challenge faced the prospect of lackluster growth over the long term. But in sharp contrast, “High Science” device companies are making a concerted effort to reinvent their approach to R&D in gain a competitive edge.” – Boston Consulting Group, December 2010

Representative Current Projects

  • X-ray fluoroscopy system – product development and pilot manufacturing
  • Drug delivery – characterization of gear assembly for next-generation product
  • Ophthalmology – handheld cornea cutter (micro-keratome)
  • Cardiac intervention – catheter-based optical coherence tomography system
  • Tissue oximetry – development of next-generation intra-operative instrument
  • Flow cytometry – data acquisition and processing for hematology system

Representative Past Projects

Our technical team has worked on all stages of projects, from conceptual design through manufacturing and regulatory compliance, for a wide variety of clients. Common project themes include integration of novel sensors and actuators, low-noise detection, high-speed signal processing, and systems engineering.

Medical Devices / Combination Products

  • Drug delivery – inhalers, infusion pumps, needle free injectors
  • Novel pumps – novel actuators for medical pumping mechanisms
  • Oximeters – advanced signal processing software for oximetry
  • Bioimpedance – multichannel low noise acquisition systems for biodefense, catheter tracking, and physiological monitoring applications
  • Critical care monitors
  • Catheter tracking
  • Medical robotics
  • Physiological sensors
  • Non-invasive spectroscopy systems

Image Guided Therapy

  • Medical imaging system design, including CT, fluoroscopy, MRI, SPECT and ultrasound
  • x-ray sources – scanning beam x-ray source, miniature source for therapy, electron optics
  • Nuclear medicine – ultrafast cardiac SPECT, multi-pinhole
  • Sensors – photon counting detectors, computed radiography, digital radiography, and scintillation detection
  • Algorithms – 3-D reconstruction algorithms, Monte Carlo simulations
  • MRI – pulse sequences, MR S, system design
  • Ultrasound – photoacoustic imaging
  • Radiation therapy systems
  • Medical image archiving system with DICOM capability
  • Document scanning
  • Optical coherence tomography imaging

Medical Optics and Biophotonics

  • Optical coherence tomography – visualization of sub dermal tissue structures
  • Near infrared spectroscopy – fully prototyped noninvasive alcohol sensor
  • Fluorescence imaging – improved Sentinel lymph node detection
  • Raman spectroscopy – noninvasive glucose sensor
  • MEMS optical devices – miniature laser module
  • Opto mechanics – lens design and layout

Life Sciences Instrumentation and Clinical Diagnostics

  • Protein analysis instrumentation
  • Cell-based assay instruments
  • Fluorescence detection
  • Nanoparticle optical markers