🔬Panasonic, the world’s first! Developed next-generation catheter with image sensor
- · World’s first! “Imaging Sensor Tip Mount Vascular Endoscopic Catheter”
- – Realized intravascular forward vision in full color
- – Realization of high image quality equivalent to approximately 480 thousand pixels with a diameter of 1.8 mm Overview
Osaka University and Panasonic Corporation will announce 2013 We began developing medical devices for intravascular observation through collaboration between industry and academia, and now we are developing the world’s first * 1 which enables forward viewing within a blood vessel with a high image quality equivalent to about 480,000 pixels while being 1.8 mm in diameter We have succeeded in practical application of “Image Sensor Tip Mounted Vascular Endoscopic Catheter”. Press Release | Panasonic Newsroom Japan
http://news.panasonic.com/jp/press/data/2017/11/jn171128-1/jn171128-1.html