OmniGuide

OmniGuide Inc.
Type	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 are capable of manufacturing 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

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.
"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-07-04. Retrieved 2008-07-14.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
"MIT technology used to shrink tumor".
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.

External links

Omniguide Inc Website

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[pmid19772415-1] 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] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-07-04. Retrieved 2008-07-14.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[3] "MIT technology used to shrink tumor".

[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.