Medical marketplace

Michael Moretti

doi:10.1117/12.50473

1 August 1991 Medical marketplace

Michael Moretti

Proceedings Volume 1520, The Laser Marketplace in 1991; (1991) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.50473
Event: The Laser Marketplace in 1991, 1991, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Abstract

Solid state lasers are the real highlight of my talk today, and were really the star of the year. In every application area I can think of, people have tried with some success to introduce corturiercial solid state products. I'll go into more detail, but aside from solid state, a very significant event happened in Deceniber when one of the laser angioplasty companies (Advanced Interventional Systens) received FDA clearance to begin marketing the excimer for coronary applications (Figure 1) . This is the first time to my knowledge that an excimer has ever been cleared for a medical application in the United States. It's an event that we didn't really expect to happen so soon. It's extremely significant and we'll see where it goes from here. The system needs to be road-tested a bit but to get past the FDA is the major obstacle. Looking back to solid state laser the importance of solid state lasers is as researchers become more involved with the excimer and conduct more clinical studies in ophthalmology, they realize that it's not going to be a panacea for all refractive surgery or other ophthalmolic applications. In many cases it looks like the solid state laser may be the laser of choice in certain types of surgery; most notably perhaps in refractive surgery. We've all read about the success of the excimer at least in capturing the press's attention for corneal sculpting and vision correction. Well, it could be that actually the next generation will be a solid state laser, so let's keep an open mind here.

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Michael Moretti "Medical marketplace", Proc. SPIE 1520, The Laser Marketplace in 1991, (1 August 1991); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.50473

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