Magnetecs Corp.

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Check off electromagnetism as another in a long line of technologies used extensively by the defense industry that has now found favor in medical application. The Catheter Guidance Control and Imaging system from Magnetecs Corp. navigates a catheter tip via electromagnetic technology to better target radiofrequency ablation therapy during cardiology-electrophysiology procedures. The company believes its real-time navigational system offers a rapid, safe and accurate means of treating cardiac rhythm disturbances in a manner that heretofore has not been available.

Magnetecs Corp.

Article preview from Start-Up - March 01, 2011

Check off electromagnetism as another in a long line of technologies used extensively by the defense industry that has now found favor in medical application. The Catheter Guidance Control and Imaging ( CGCI) system from Magnetecs Corp. navigates a catheter tip via electromagnetic technology to better target radiofrequency (RF) ablation therapy during cardiology-electrophysiology procedures.

"This is a real-time navigational system that offers a rapid, safe and accurate means of treating cardiac rhythm disturbances in a manner that heretofore has not been available," says company chief medical officer Eli Gang, clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles' medical school.

Any patient with a cardiac rhythm disturbance who requires catheter ablation is a potential candidate for CGCI, according to Gang. This currently represents in excess of over 200,000 surgical cases annually in the US alone, with a potential market of roughly $15 billion, and over five million cases globally.

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