Ex Facebook, Google exec’s imaging startup tests portable imaging devices more affordable than MRI
The CEO and founder of the Silicon Valley-based imaging startup Openwater, Mary Lou Jepsen, PhD, is leading her company into making portable, miniature medical imaging devices that she hopes will disrupt the MRI market as a more affordable and accurate modality, according to an article published Nov. 13 by Business Insider.
The former Facebook and Google executive is currently having her company test the device on mouse models and hopes it can observe in real time everything from the effects of medication to the progression of cancer.
Because the images produced are more accurate and detailed that those from MRIs, Jepsen explained, Openwater’s ultimate goal is for the devices to be used in people’s homes to perform various imaging tasks.
Openwater is also working with the Focused Ultrasound Foundation based in Charlottesville, Virginia, to explore how the technology could be used during non-invasive surgical procedures, according to the article.
"I want everyone to be able to buy these machines in the drug store next to the blood pressure cuff," Jepsen told Business Insider.
Read Business Insider’s entire article below.
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