Optiscan Imaging (ASX:OIL) entered into an exclusive collaboration agreement with Long Grove Pharmaceuticals to develop new intended applications for Long Grove's intravenous drug, fluorescein sodium, or AK-FLOUR, according to a Monday Australian bourse filing.
AK-FLOUR is a contrast agent specifically used with Optiscan's current generation of fluorescence-based endomicroscopic imaging devices for surgical applications. The firms will develop new intended uses for the intravenous fluorescein sodium contrast agent.
AK-FLOUR will be used exclusively in US clinical studies and trials with Optiscan's InVue device in a range of clinical applications, starting with breast surgery. Data from the collaboration studies will be used to support Optiscan's US Food and Drug Administration regulatory submissions for its InVue surgical device.
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