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Arterial-Venous Eye Pulse Oximeter (AVEPOX)
Title: Vice President
Phone: (310) 320-7892
Email: poc@social.rr.com
Title: Chief Financial Officer
Phone: (310) 320-3088
Email: gdrew@poc.com
Hemorrhage is the primary cause of death on the battlefield. Army has a pressing need for a non-invasive device that can measure vital organ arterial and venous blood oxygen saturation to assess whether, and when, oxygen delivery and absorption isadequate. To meet this need Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new Arterial-Venous Eye Pulse Oximeter (AVEPOX). AVEPOX will operate with a spatially modulated, multiwavelength, laser light. Packaged as a hand-held ophthalmoscope, itwill allow separate, non-invasive, on?battlefield measurement of oxygen saturation of both arterial and venous blood and save in its memory or immediately transmit this information to a medical center. In Phase I, POC will develop a laboratory model andthen test it using an optical model of human eye and on chicken embryo. In Phase II, a full-scale hand?held prototype will be fabricated and tested on small animal models. The proposed AVEPOX will become a state-of-the-art non-invasive optical oximetrydevice allowing simultaneous and independent measurement of arterial and venous blood oxygen saturation. This instrument will profoundly improve the diagnostics and treatment of numerous hypoxia-related diseases such as hemorrhage injures, diabetes,ulcers, and cardiovascular disorders.
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