Vascular disease; intravascular imaging tool: OPTIS Mobile Integrated Lab is now in Japan and Europe

OPTIS™ Mobile System.

Over traditional diagnostic imaging tools, where physicians have relied on either angiography or intravascular ultrasound to guide PCI procedures, henceforth St. Jude Medical’s ILUMIEN™ System that combined OCT and FFR technology, aims to enable a more detailed, physiological and anatomical analysis of blood flow blockages inside the coronary vessels.

The company’s OPTIS™ Mobile System is now launched in Japan and Europe to couple optical coherence tomography (OCT) and angiography co-registration with fractional flow reserve (FFR) technology into one portable system for hospitals with multiple catheterization labs. 

The catheterization lab allows physicians to use minimally invasive percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures that give patients an alternative to open heart surgery with the goal to improve patient outcomes, shorten hospital stays and reduce hospital costs. The latest OPTIS System can offer physicians an efficient way to optimize PCI procedures for the treatment of vascular disease.