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Forus Health

์‚ฌ๋ก€ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ 4:
๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ๋„์ƒ๊ตญ์—์„œ์˜ ์น˜๋ฃŒ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์‹ค๋ช…์˜ ๊ทผ์ ˆ

Forus Health๋Š” ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ๋„์ƒ๊ตญ์— ๊ฒฝ์ œ์ ์ธ ์˜๋ฃŒ ํ˜œํƒ์„ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‚ฌ์ „ ๊ฒ€์ง„์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ €๊ฐ€์˜ ํœด๋Œ€์šฉ ๊ฒ€์•ˆ๊ฒฝ์„ ์ œ์ž‘ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค

Iris - Deformable Mirrors

Forus Health๋Š” ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ๋„์ƒ๊ตญ์˜ ๋ณด๊ฑด์˜๋ฃŒ์ „๋‹ฌ ์ฒด๊ณ„์— ๋‹ฅ์นœ ์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ”ผ๋ ฅํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์—๋“œ๋ชฌ๋“œ ์˜ตํ‹ฑ์Šค์˜ ๊ด‘ํ•™ ๋ถ€ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ ์„ค๊ณ„๋œ ํ˜์‹ ์ ์ด๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ์ €๊ฐ€์˜ ํœด๋Œ€์šฉ ์•ˆ๊ณผ ๊ฒ€์ง„ ์žฅ๋น„์ธ 3nethra๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•œ ๊ธฐ์—…์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Forus Health์‚ฌ์˜ ์ฃผ์š” ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๋Š” ๋Œ€๋žต 1:60,000์˜ ์•ˆ๊ณผ ์˜์‚ฌ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋†’์€ ํ™˜์ž์ˆ˜ ๋น„์œจ์„ ๊ฐ–๋Š” ํ˜„์‹ค์— ์ฒ˜ํ•œ ์ธ๋„์—์„œ ์น˜๋ฃŒ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์‹ค๋ช…์„ ๊ทผ์ ˆํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 3nethra๋Š” ๋ฐฑ๋‚ด์žฅ, ๋…น๋‚ด์žฅ, ๋‹น๋‡จ์„ฑ ๋ง๋ง‰, ๊ตด์ ˆ ์งˆํ™˜, ๊ฐ๋ง‰ ์งˆํ™˜๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ 5๋Œ€ ์•ˆ์งˆํ™˜์„ ๊ฐ์ง€ํ•ด์ง€๋Š” ์žฅ๋น„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์ตœ์†Œํ•œ์˜ ํ›ˆ๋ จ์„ ๋ฐ›์€ ํ…Œํฌ๋‹ˆ์…˜์ผ์ง€๋ผ๋„ ์•ˆ๊ณผ ์ „๋ฌธ์˜๊ฐ€ ์—†๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ ์ง„๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ์„ค๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ฒ™๋ฐ•ํ•œ ๊ณณ์—์„œ๋„ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๊ณผ ์„ค์น˜๊ฐ€ ์šฉ์ดํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์™€ ๋”๋ถˆ์–ด 3nethra์˜ ์›๊ฒฉ ์ง„๋ฃŒ์™€ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์ €์žฅ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์œผ๋กœ ์ „ ์ง€์—ญ์˜ ์•ˆ๊ณผ ์ง„๋ฃŒ์†Œ์™€ ์ ‘์†์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Forus Health์˜ ๋ฐฉ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ธต์€ ์•ˆ๊ณผ ์ „๋ฌธ Ophthalmology Hospitals & Clinics, Diabetic & Diagnostic Clinics, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  Vision Centers (health kiosks ๋ฐ general physicians)์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์˜๋ฃŒ ์‚ฌ์—…์ฒด๋กœ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 3nethra ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์ •์‹ ์˜๋ฃŒ ๊ฒ€์ฆ ๋ฐ CE ํ‘œ์ค€์„ ์ค€์ˆ˜ํ•˜๋Š” ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์ณ ์ธ๋„์˜ ๋Œ€ํ˜• ์•ˆ๊ณผ ์ „๋ฌธ ๋ณ‘์›์— ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ฐฐํฌ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.  

Iris - Deformable Mirrors

์ œํ’ˆ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์„ ํ–ฅํ•œ ๋„์ „

  • 3nethra๋Š” ์—๋“œ๋ชฌ๋“œ ์˜ตํ‹ฑ์Šค์˜ ๊ด‘ํ•™ ๋ถ€ํ’ˆ์„ ์ด์šฉํ•ด ์ œ์ž‘๋œ ์ €๊ฐ€์˜ ํœด๋Œ€์šฉ ์•ˆ๊ณผ ๊ฒ€์ง„ ์žฅ๋น„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • Planoconvex lens์™€ achromatic lens ๊ฐ™์€ ํ‘œ์ค€ ๊ตฌ๋ฉด ๊ด‘ํ•™ ๋ถ€ํ’ˆ์— ํŠน์ˆ˜ mirror์™€ polarizer๊ฐ€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ์ด์ „ ๋””์ž์ธ์ด ๊ฐ€์‹œ๊ด‘ ์˜์—ญ์—์„œ๋Š” ์šฐ์ˆ˜ํ•œ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ์—ˆ์œผ๋‚˜, NIR ์˜์—ญ์—์„œ๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์–‘ํ˜ธํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ƒ์‚ฐํ•˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ ๋ช…ํ•œ ๋ฐ˜์‚ฌ๋กœ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€์˜ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์—์„œ ๋šœ๋ ทํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์ด๋‚˜ ๊ฒ€์ง„ ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ๊ฐ„์„ญ์ด ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ์ตœ๋Œ€ 1000nm์˜ ์žฅํŒŒ์žฅ ์˜์—ญ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ปค๋ฒ„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋ฌด๋ฐ˜์‚ฌ ์ฝ”ํŒ…์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ • ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜์—ฌ, ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์— ์กด์žฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ˜์‚ฌ์™€ ๋…ธ์ด์ฆˆ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ •ํ•˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ด์ค‘ ๊ฒ€์‚ฌ ๋ฐฉ์‹์€ ์•ˆ๊ณผ ์šฉ๋„์—์„œ ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ๋ง๋ง‰ ํ‘œ๋ฉด๊ณผ ๊ฐ๋ง‰ ์ „์ฒด์˜ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ๊ฒ€์‚ฌ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์‹œ๊ด‘ ์˜์—ญ์—์„œ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง€์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ˆˆ์— ์ž๊ทน์„ ์ฃผ์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ๊ฒ€์‚ฌ๋Š” NIR ์˜์—ญ์—์„œ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

EO์™€ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ์„ ๋งบ์€ FORUS HEALTH ๊ธฐ์—… ์ •๋ณด

Forus์˜ ๊ธฐ์—…๋ช…์€ ์ž์‚ฌ์™€ ์ž์‚ฌ์˜ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚ดํฌํ•œ โ€œFor usโ€ ์˜๋ฌธ์—์„œ ๋น„๋กฏ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. FORUS HEALTH๋Š” ํ˜์‹ ์ฃผ๋„ํ˜• ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋กœ์„œ ์ €๊ฐ€ํ˜• ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜์„ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์‚ถ์„ ๋Œ€์ค‘ํ™”ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ธ๋„ ๋ฐ ์ฃผ๋ณ€๊ตญ์˜ ๋ณด๊ฑด ์˜๋ฃŒ ์‹คํƒœ์— ๊ด€์‹ฌ์„ ๋‘๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์—…์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ธ๋„ ๋ฐฉ๊ฐˆ๋กœ๋ฅด๋ฅผ ๊ทผ๊ฑฐ์ง€๋กœ K. Chandrasekhar์™€ Shyam V. Rao์— ์˜ํ•ด ์„ค๋ฆฝ๋œ ์ด ์‹ ์ƒ ๊ธฐ์—…์ด ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•œ 3nethra๋Š” ์ €๊ฐ€์˜ ํœด๋Œ€์šฉ ์•ˆ๊ณผ ๊ฒ€์ง„ ์žฅ๋น„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Forus์‚ฌ๋Š” ์•ˆ์งˆํ™˜ ๊ฒ€์ง„๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋‹น๋‡จ, ์‹ฌํ˜ˆ๊ด€, ์‹ ์žฅ, ์‹ ๊ฒฝ ์งˆํ™˜์˜ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ์ฆ์ƒ์„ ๊ฐ์ง€ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ง๋ง‰ ์Šค์บ๋‹ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์— ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋‘๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. FORUS HEALTH๋Š” ์ฐฝ๋ฆฝ ํ›„ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๋ช‡ ๋…„๊ฐ„ Gold Medallist, DST - Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth Programme, Indo Dutch Innovation Award, Samsung Innovation Quotient, 2010 Piramal Prize์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ 9๊ฐœ์˜ ์ˆ˜์ƒ์„ ์ผ๊ถˆ์˜จ ๋†€๋ผ์šด ์ด๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.  

The Future Depends on Optics
๋ณธ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๊ฐ€ ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ?

References

  1. โ€œGlobal Data on Visual Impairment.โ€ World Health Organization, World Health Organization, 2010, www.who.int/blindness/publications/globaldata/en/.
  2. The Tech Museum of Innovation. โ€œForus Health: 2017 Tech for Global Good Laureate.โ€ YouTube, 4 November, 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=31&v=IUKMnMD-ZY0.
  3. โ€œPreterm birth.โ€ World Health Organization, World Health Organization, 2018, https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/preterm-birth.
The Future Depends on Optics
 
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