Handheld diffuse optical breast scanner probe (DOB-scan)

技术开发人员已经生产了一种手持式漫射光学乳房扫描探头，用于测量乳房组织的光学特性，并创建乳房的功能和组成横截面图像。为了评估该设备的性能和可用性，开发人员首先在具有与乳房组织相似光学特性的乳房组织模拟材料上测试了探头。然后，他们在人体上测试了该设备。该技术的商业可行性的关键问题涉及该技术的潜在市场规模的验证，最终用户需求和购买意愿/能力的验证。计划的市场研究将有助于确定关键的细分市场和关键的人口统计数据以及潜在的可寻址市场规模。北美和亚洲的多个投资机构都对该公司有投资兴趣。这项研究将有助于在任何投资讨论中为潜在估值设定一个初步范围。

The technology developers have produced a handheld diffuse optical breast scanning probe to measure opticalproperties of breast tissue and create functional and compositional cross-sectional images of the breast. Toevaluate performance and usability of the device, the developers, first tested the probe on breast tissuemimicking materials which have similar optical properties to breast tissue. They then tested the device onhuman subjects.The key questions on the commercial viability of this technology relate to validation of the potential marketsize for the technology, validation of the end-user need and willingness/ability to purchase.The planned market study will help identify key market segments and key demographics together with potentialaddressable market size. There has been investment interest from various sources in North America and Asia.The study will help set an initial range for potential valuation in any investment discussions.