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We should be hearing more about this in the news soon.  A confocal laser 
endomicroscopy device developed by Optiscan, an Australian company, 
permits endoscopists to make an accurate realtime diagnosis of celiac 
disease, bypassing the need to take and prepare and evaluate biopsy 
specimens in a laboratory.  This technique would allow the endoscopist to 
view and evaluate as many "samples" as needed to make a correct diagnosis 
and immediately give the results to the patient.  This should reduce 
diagnostic errors.  A paper on "Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy in the 
diagnosis of Coeliac disease" by R. Leong et al. will be presented in 
Adelaide, Australia this Saturday, Oct. 14.  

Doctors develop diagnostic technique for coeliac disease
< http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1762422.htm >

Australian Gastroenterology Week (AGW) 2006
Hosted by the Gastroenterological Society of Australia (GESA) 
Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide, South Australia
11-14th October 2006.
< http://www.agw2006.com/program.html >

To be presented Oct. 14, 2006:
Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy in the diagnosis of Coeliac disease
R Leong 

"Optiscan’s unique and patented technology has miniaturised the 
microscope’s scanning head, so that it is now so small it can fit inside 
the body. Once the miniaturised scanner is integrated into an endoscope to 
create an endomicroscope, doctors can for the first time safely and 
instantly get high quality images of tissue at a cellular level from their 
patients. This gives doctors new levels of information providing a highly 
magnified view of living tissue that is entirely consistent with the 
macroscopic views that they are used to seeing from their endoscopes. This 
breakthrough technology creates a vast array of new applications, both 
medical and industrial. Optiscan’s primary focus is in the medical arena, 
where it can provide a virtual biopsy, potentially revolutionising current 
pathology and histology practices." 

About Optiscan
< http://www.optiscan.com.au/about/about_02.asp >

Sample Images
< http://www.optiscan.com.au/Technology/Images_01.asp >

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