OmniGuide explained

OmniGuide Inc.
Type:	Private
Foundation:	2000
Location:	Cambridge, Massachusetts
Key People:	Scott Flora, President & CEO
Homepage:	https://www.omni-guide.com

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]}

External links

• Omniguide Inc Website

Notes and References

1. 280–4 . 10.3171/2009.4.PEDS08349 . A new fiber-mediated carbon dioxide laser facilitates pediatric spinal cord detethering . 2009 . Browd . Samuel R. . Zauberman . Jacob . Karandikar . Mahesh . Ojemann . Jeffery G. . Avellino . Anthony M. . Ellenbogen . Richard G. . Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics . 4 . 3 . 19772415.
2. Web site: Archived copy . 2008-07-14 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080704143015/http://mrsec.org/industry/omniguide-inc/ . 2008-07-04 .
3. Web site: MIT technology used to shrink tumor.
4. Anandasabapathy. S.. Sharmila Anandasabapathy. 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. 10.1055/s-0028-1103482. 19214893.