Vena Medical’s Microangioscope, the first device to give real-time, full-colour, imaging inside of certain vessels.
Kitchener-based health-technology company Vena Medical started as a fourth-year design project by Michael Phillips and Phillip Cooper (both BASc ‘18, mechanical engineering) in Waterloo Engineering and has only continued to grow since then.
Just this fall, the company gained new approval from Health Canada for its Microangioscope, the first device in the world to provide physicians with full-colour, real-time imaging inside neurovascular, coronary and peripheral vessels.
This new medical device license allows physicians to use the Microangioscope whenever they see fit, whereas before they could only use the device on a case-by-case basis,which would need to be given special one-off approval. With this new licensing, more physicians will be able to use it and provide even better care for patients.
Learn more about Vena Medical and this big step forward for the Microangioscope in Vena Medical looks ahead after breakthrough for its imaging tech, and learn more about what this means and what comes next in the interview with Vena Medical CEO Michael Phillips in Can a Camera Inside Your Arteries Change Stroke Care?.