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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Optical components maker Edmund Optics (Barrington, NJ) has awarded Shahid Haider of the University of Waterloo in Canada, who developed a medical device that eases diabetes monitoring in children, with its 2014 Norman Edmund Inspiration Award. With this award win, Haider will receive $5000 worth of the company's products to further his research.
The medical device that Haider developed is a non-contact, handheld imaging system that simultaneously captures multiple polarization states of the eye to infer a patient's blood glucose concentration. Typically, Type 1 diabetics have to prick their finger to get an estimate of blood glucose levels—for many children, this process is not only inconvenient but painful. By eliminating any pain associated with diabetes testing, this device has the direct potential to improve the quality of life for those afflicted with diabetes, including reducing the risk of eye, kidney, and heart damage.
http://www.bioopticsworld.com/artic...es-testing-wins-award-from-edmund-optics.html
The medical device that Haider developed is a non-contact, handheld imaging system that simultaneously captures multiple polarization states of the eye to infer a patient's blood glucose concentration. Typically, Type 1 diabetics have to prick their finger to get an estimate of blood glucose levels—for many children, this process is not only inconvenient but painful. By eliminating any pain associated with diabetes testing, this device has the direct potential to improve the quality of life for those afflicted with diabetes, including reducing the risk of eye, kidney, and heart damage.
http://www.bioopticsworld.com/artic...es-testing-wins-award-from-edmund-optics.html
