Israel-based medical imaging technology developer RealView Imaging has secured $10m from investors including medical device producer Shanghai LongTec Medical Technology, according to the Wall Street Journal.
LongTec China Ventures, LongTec’s corporate venturing subsidiary, invested alongside RealView’s chairman Shimon Eckhouse.
RealView’s technology offers surgeons a real-time 3D hologram display of a patient’s anatomy, letting medical professionals interact with the hologram using either their hands or a stylus. It plans to commercially launch the technology in the form of a specialised device by 2016.
RealView has licensed rotating X-ray detector imaging technology from Philips Healthcare, a subsidiary of diversified technology company Philips. The two companies conducted a clinical study in 2013 that tested RealView’s implementation of the technology in interventional cardiology.
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