Healthcare imaging technology firm Oxford Electromagnetic Acoustic Imaging (OxEMA), UK, is working towards building an imaging system that can be used in a clinical environment. A proposed Isis Innovation spinout company, OxEMA is seeking investment to take its patented technology through its initial clinical, engineering and regulatory stages. Isis Innovation is the University of Oxford's technology transfer company that manages the University's intellectual property portfolio, working with University researchers on identifying, protecting and marketing technologies through licensing, spin-out company formation and material sales.
Isis files, on average, one new patent application each week, has concluded over 500 technology licensing agreements, and established 70 new spin-out companies from Oxford since 1997.
OxEMA's technology is said to use an innovative combination of electro-magnetic and acoustic waves in order to create medical images at a cost comparable to ultrasound. The benefits of this are much greater clarity of image and tissue-type characterisation in this price bracket. The technology is non-ionising and thus said to offer a clear benefit over x-ray and CT scanning.
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