China's First Contact-Based OCT for Pediatric Ophthalmology Nears Market Launch, Bolstering High-Precision Diagnostic Capabilities
Fuhan Medical
Developer of Products and Services in the Field of Children's Eye Health
Recently, the Lianyungang Industrial Investment Fund managed by Jinyu Maowu invested in Fuhan Medical, a leading enterprise in high-precision diagnostic and treatment devices for pediatric ophthalmology.Fuhan MedicalThe injection of tens of millions of yuan in funding has provided strong momentum for the accelerated market entry of innovative products such as the pediatric fundus multimodal system and the intelligent children's vision examination system. This not only offers robust support for the development of Fuhan Medical but also brings new hope to the field of pediatric ophthalmic diagnostic equipment.
2024 is a year of profound transformation for the medical device industry, with the country placing high emphasis and strong support on the industry, products, and utilization of innovative pharmaceuticals and devices. In the field of pediatric ophthalmic diagnostic and treatment equipment, there exists a significant demand gap that urgently requires clinical engineering translation to apply advanced technologies and tools in pediatric ophthalmic care. Fuhan Medical, in collaboration with numerous partners, is safeguarding a bright future for the children of China with innovative technology as its weapon.
Continuous Innovation
Promoting the Improvement of Pediatric Fundus Disease Prevention and Treatment
In 2024, at the "Finals of the National Maternal and Child Health Professional Skills Competition" held in Beijing,Fuhan Medical's first-generation high-performance product, the KRS-01 Coritong wide-field retinal imaging system, stood out and was selected as the competition evaluation instrument, receiving coverage from CCTV News.With its self-innovated 160-degree ultra-wide-angle technology, this product accurately aligns with the biological processes of pediatric eye diseases, enabling more effective detection of pediatric ocular lesions. Additionally, it features high-speed lossless image transmission and intelligent auxiliary diagnostic technology, significantly enhancing the convenience, efficiency, and quality control level in clinical use.
Fig. CCTV News Channel's Report on the "Finals of the National Maternal and Child Health Professional Skills Competition"
In July of the same year, the first "pen-shaped" ultra-wide-angle fundus detection system KRS-mini was approved for marketing.This innovative product achieves the POCT (Point-of-Care Testing) of contact-based fundus examination systems, providing a more convenient option for primary healthcare institutions to use pediatric fundus imaging systems. Its ultra-portable design directly addresses the dilemma of equipment shortages in grassroots health management and medical education, gaining widespread popularity. In clinical practice, emergency departments and animal experiments in pharmaceutical research and development have also expressed strong demand for this product.
In September, Fuhan Medical's KRS-02 product also successfully obtained registration certification, becoming a domestically produced tool for conducting fluorescent pediatric fundus examinations in hospitals.
Fig. "Pen-shaped" Ultra-portable Fundus Imaging System KRS-mini
In the past year, with the successive launches of Fuhan Medical's fundus product series, the company team has worked tirelessly, traveling all over China.The 32 provinces and over 200 prefecture-level cities/regions of China have brought effective new methods for the prevention and control of pediatric fundus diseases to areas such as Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia. This has provided local children with more user-friendly, more effective, and higher cost-performance medical devices for the prevention and treatment of eye diseases. Efforts are being made to ensure that modern detection methods benefit people across the country, serving ordinary households.
Fig. Fuhan Medical's Already Listed Products Bring New Clinical Utility Under Spotlight
Innovation Breakthrough
First Contact-Based OCT Breaks International Gap
Fuhan Medical's pioneeringContact-based OCT, filling the technical and product gaps both in China and internationally. Unlike the widely used desktop OCT, Fuhan Medical has pioneered a more portable handheld OCT probe, combined with a contact lens, suitable for retinal examinations in infants and others who cannot cooperate with fixation, opening up new application scenarios and providing doctors with a novel and effective solution.
Fig. The first contact OCT for non-fixation populations such as children and anesthetized patients is about to be launched.
This product achieves color photography and OCT dual-modal imaging for the first time, providing doctors with multi-dimensional image information. Relying on its accumulated optical design capabilities, the company skillfully integrates the optical paths of ultra-wide-angle color photography and OCT, which operate in different wavelength bands, into a handheld probe weighing only a few hundred grams. The adoption of unique physical optics technology ensures robust control and reduces the impact of stray light; a high light-guiding efficiency structure allows the illumination source to evenly light up the entire fundus; and a larger target surface CMOS restores every detail of the fundus. At the same time, the use of MEMS-based galvanometer mirrors reduces the weight of the probe and enables independent or synchronized focusing control for single-line and dual-beam optical paths. It supports various OCT scanning modes such as cross and rectangular patterns, truly integrating the advantages of true-color fundus imaging and OCT technology.
Fig. Fuhan Medical OCT Achieves Precise Real-Time Positioning Scan Structure on Ultra-Widefield Fundus Color Photography
Currently, there is an urgent clinical need to study the relationship between tissue, cell, protein, gene mapping, omics, and related structural changes in the process of pediatric eye development and disease pathology. The重磅 launch of contact-based OCT will greatly accelerate the aforementioned research efforts, aiding in the expedited innovation of related drugs, treatment methods, medical devices, and rehabilitation approaches, while providing first-hand materials for the formulation of clinical guidelines.
Fig. Biological research on pediatric eye structure and omics will provide more exciting medical value.
It is worth mentioning that,In December 2024, Fuhan Medical participated in the National Science and Technology Major Project, "Research on Early Identification, Intervention Techniques, and Strategies for Severe Visual Impairment in Infants, Toddlers, and Adolescents." Its innovative medical device product, contact OCT, will provide strong support for establishing an "AI and multi-modal imaging technology-based early screening and warning model for infant visual impairment diseases."
Medical-Engineering Transformation
From Demand to Innovation: Building a Powerful Tool for Diagnosis and Treatment
From the launch of Creton 01 Pediatric Fundus Wide-field Imaging System in 2023 to the successive releases of the new-generation products Ultra and Mini, every step reflects the wisdom, clinical practice, and hard work of the collaborating expert team. The first "pen-shaped" pocket fundus imaging system was developed in response to an urgent need raised by experts during regional ophthalmology teaching and support for grassroots medical institutions. The intelligent image quality control system and the nine-grid shooting system addressed key clinical challenges in fundus imaging quality control while making it more convenient for clinicians to use the equipment. The first intelligent pediatric vision tester enables vision testing starting at three months of age, directly tackling the difficulties faced by doctors in China’s 0-6-year-old children's eye care and vision examination work—namely, a shortage of doctors, long examination times, and heavy examination tasks. Additionally, a series of innovations derived from clinical transformations are currently under development.
Fig. Fuhan Medical's Pediatric Fundus Imaging System Pipeline Supports China's Major National Science and Technology Projects
Fuhan Medical has established a high-precision diagnostic and treatment equipment and artificial intelligence engineering research center for pediatric ophthalmology. The center has built a clinical medicine transformation platform for clinical experts and university experts, integrating a research and development system, production system, engineering system, and technical cooperation system, to promptly meet the unmet productization needs in the field of pediatric ophthalmology. In December 2024, the West China Hospital-Fuhan Medical Ophthalmology Research Center was approved by West China Hospital, which will further deepen the clinical transformation work between Fuhan Medical and top hospitals, adding strong new momentum to serving children's eye health through innovation.
Fig. Fuhan Medical Builds an Industrial Platform for Clinical Engineering Transformation
Pediatric ophthalmology is thriving under the nourishment of various resources such as policy support, academic progress, and product enhancement. As pioneers in pediatric ophthalmology, Fuhan Medical and its partners, guided by technology and modern engineering, production techniques, have forged a bright path towards early screening and diagnosis of childhood eye diseases, as well as research into intervention technologies and strategies for pediatric eye conditions.