Ellex Medical Lasers sells solid-state photodisruptors, photocoagulators and SLT devices for treating cataract, glaucoma and retinal conditions. As of 2007, the only Innovative Imaging Inc product is the Eye Cubed diagnostic ultrasound system. Ellex holds a number of core patents which it claims act to differentiate the laser portfolio. These include: Ellex Medical Lasers Ellex Medical Lasers is an Australia-based company that is engaged in the business of designing, manufacturing and marketing a line of lasers used by ophthalmologists. Ellex manufactures and sells photodisruptors, photocoagulators and selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT) system for treating cataract, retina and glaucoma conditions. Ellex was first established as
Normal tension glaucoma of cases that have been reported in medical literature in the 1980s and 1990s who had the typical signs of glaucomatous damage, like optic nerve head excavation and thinning of the retinal nerve fiber layer, while these patients had an IOP that would generally have been regarded as "normal". It is now widely estimated that a larger percentage of patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) are suffering from normal tension glaucoma: probably half of all POAG patients in Europe and the majority of POAG patients in East Asia. Among Americans of Japanese descent, for instance, the prevalence of NTG is