MediGuide "Medical GPS" Gets CE Certification

Main Category: Cardiovascular / Cardiology
Also Included In: Medical Devices / Diagnostics
Article Date: 19 Dec 2007 - 1:00 PDT


MediGuide Ltd., a privately held company based in Israel announced it received a CE MARK certification for its Medical Position System (MPS) and MPS enable Guided Measurement Catheter (GMC).

The MPS system is an innovative tracking and navigation system designed to be used in various less invasive procedures. The MPS equipped on an X-ray imaging Cath Lab system is intended for intravascular evaluation of coronary anatomy. It is intended to enable real time tip positioning and navigation of an MPS enabled (equipped with an MPS sensor) diagnostic or therapeutic invasive device used in coronary or cardiac intervention in the Cath Lab environment, on both live fluoroscopy or recorded background.

The first MPS enabled catheter, which also received CE MARK, is the Guided Measurement Catheter (GMC). The MPS enabled GMC intravascular device is intended to be used in conjunction with conventional X-ray angiography systems equipped with MPS, to enable real-time tip positioning and navigation, quantitative length measurement, 3D lumen reconstruction, qualitative 3D foreshortening indication and landmarking, in patients who are candidates for coronary angiography and/or Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI).

About MediGuide

MediGuide is a medical-device company developing innovative tracking and imaging technologies for use during minimally-invasive surgical procedures. Located in Haifa, Israel, MediGuide was established in 2001 as a spin-off of Elbit Systems (NASDAQ: ESLT), a major Israeli defense technology company. MediGuide has developed a highly sophisticated navigation system: Medical Positioning System (MPS), which is aimed to enabled real-time tracking of therapeutic and future diagnostic medical devices (MPS Enabled Devices) such as catheters, wires and stents equipped with miniature MPS sensors. MPS is intended to provide clinicians with 3-D information about the structure of the coronary arteries and to track MPS-enabled devices in these vessels.

http://www.mediguide.co.il

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