WATERTOWN, Mass., April 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Boston Micromachines Corporation (BMC) a leading provider of MEMS-based deformable mirror products for adaptive optics systems, today announced that Physical Sciences, Inc. (PSI) has selected its Multi-DM deformable mirror for use in its adaptive optics spectral domain optical coherence tomography (AO-SDOCT) system. The combination of AO and SDOCT enables better imaging of the human retina.
"The Multi-DM has proven reliability and high performance," said Dr. Daniel X. Hammer, Principal Research Scientist at Physical Science Inc. "Our previous success integrating a BMC deformable mirror into our adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscope (AOSLO) led to our decision to build the AO- SDOCT with a BMC mirror."
In the past, researchers and clinicians have been unable to see critical features in the human retina due to ocular aberrations that limited imaging resolution. The Multi-DM's sophisticated aberration compensation will enable better resolution imaging of the human retina than ever before. This improvement in image quality will allow clinicians using the AO-SDOCT system to detect and diagnose diabetic retinopathy and macular degeneration as well as to determine the efficacy of drugs in drug studies.
The Multi-DM boasts a longer stroke than other mirrors which enables the correction of larger aberrations of the human eyes. This allows clinicians to image a higher percentage of patients with both better and worse eyes to advance the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of eye pathologies.
"We are pleased to be working with PSI on its novel SDOCT system," Paul Bierden, president and CEO of Boston Micromachines. "Our Multi-DM has again demonstrated its reliability and technical strengths. We look forward to our continued work with PSI's world-class research staff."
Boston Micromachines award winning deformable mirrors are the standard for wavefront correction in ophthalmic adaptive optics systems around the world. The Multi-DM is used by leading vision scientists at the University of California - Berkeley, the Wellman Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, the University of Rochester, Indiana University and the Center for Adaptive Optics. The research advances enabled by this DM system show promise to improve diagnosis, understanding, and even treatment of blinding retinal diseases.
About Boston Micromachines Corporation
Founded in 1999, Boston Micromachines Corporation (BMC) is the leading provider of advanced microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) - based mirror products for use in commercial adaptive optics systems, applying wavefront correction to produce high resolution images of the human retina and enhance images blurred by the Earth's atmosphere. The company's suite of award-winning compact deformable mirror (DM) products are the most cost-effective, highest performance mirrors in the market today. They are widely used in vision science applications such as advanced optic retinal imaging, long range laser communications, and astronomy, including NASA's search for planets in other solar systems. Customers include leading manufacturers of optical imaging and communication systems, governmental agencies and contractors, and vision science research laboratories worldwide, including NASA, UCal Berkeley, Lockheed Martin and Boston University. Located in Watertown, Massachusetts, BMC is privately held and also offers custom designed manufacturing services. For more information on BMC, please visit http://www.bostonmicromachines.com.
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