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CHINA-BEIJING-OCT TECHNOLOGY-ENTREPRENEURSHIP (CN)

(240220) -- BEIJING, Feb. 20, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Zhu Rui attends a video conference on his way to a branch office of Vivolight in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Jan. 18, 2024. On Feb. 18, the first working day after China's Spring Festival holiday, Zhu Rui, founder of medical device company Vivolight, came to the catheter operating room of Beijing Anzhen Hospital to learn about the use of OCT equipment produced by his company. OCT, or optical coherence tomography technology, allows doctors to examine patients and display real-time three-dimensional images where the catheter passes, providing guide for surgery. Since graduating from Tsinghua University in 2006, Zhu has been engaged in OCT related research and product development. His role has changed from a student, a researcher to an entrepreneur. While studying in Beijing, Zhu built an OCT system for ophthalmology. While studying for his PhD in Hong Kong, he realized the potential value of OCT technology in cardiovascular surgery. In 2012,

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CHINA-BEIJING-OCT TECHNOLOGY-ENTREPRENEURSHIP (CN)

(240220) -- BEIJING, Feb. 20, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Zhu Rui (R) talks with his colleague at a branch office of Vivolight in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Jan. 19, 2024. On Feb. 18, the first working day after China's Spring Festival holiday, Zhu Rui, founder of medical device company Vivolight, came to the catheter operating room of Beijing Anzhen Hospital to learn about the use of OCT equipment produced by his company. OCT, or optical coherence tomography technology, allows doctors to examine patients and display real-time three-dimensional images where the catheter passes, providing guide for surgery. Since graduating from Tsinghua University in 2006, Zhu has been engaged in OCT related research and product development. His role has changed from a student, a researcher to an entrepreneur. While studying in Beijing, Zhu built an OCT system for ophthalmology. While studying for his PhD in Hong Kong, he realized the potential value of OCT technology in cardiovascular surgery. In 2012, he gave u

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CHINA-BEIJING-OCT TECHNOLOGY-ENTREPRENEURSHIP (CN)

(240220) -- BEIJING, Feb. 20, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Zhu Rui (R) learns about the use of OCT equipment at Beijing Anzhen Hospital in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 18, 2024. On Feb. 18, the first working day after China's Spring Festival holiday, Zhu Rui, founder of medical device company Vivolight, came to the catheter operating room of Beijing Anzhen Hospital to learn about the use of OCT equipment produced by his company. OCT, or optical coherence tomography technology, allows doctors to examine patients and display real-time three-dimensional images where the catheter passes, providing guide for surgery. Since graduating from Tsinghua University in 2006, Zhu has been engaged in OCT related research and product development. His role has changed from a student, a researcher to an entrepreneur. While studying in Beijing, Zhu built an OCT system for ophthalmology. While studying for his PhD in Hong Kong, he realized the potential value of OCT technology in cardiovascular surgery. In 2012, he gave up his do

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CHINA-BEIJING-OCT TECHNOLOGY-ENTREPRENEURSHIP (CN)

(240220) -- BEIJING, Feb. 20, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Zhu Rui (L) talks with a doctor about the use of OCT equipment at Beijing Anzhen Hospital in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 18, 2024. On Feb. 18, the first working day after China's Spring Festival holiday, Zhu Rui, founder of medical device company Vivolight, came to the catheter operating room of Beijing Anzhen Hospital to learn about the use of OCT equipment produced by his company. OCT, or optical coherence tomography technology, allows doctors to examine patients and display real-time three-dimensional images where the catheter passes, providing guide for surgery. Since graduating from Tsinghua University in 2006, Zhu has been engaged in OCT related research and product development. His role has changed from a student, a researcher to an entrepreneur. While studying in Beijing, Zhu built an OCT system for ophthalmology. While studying for his PhD in Hong Kong, he realized the potential value of OCT technology in cardiovascular surgery. In 2012, he g

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CHINA-BEIJING-OCT TECHNOLOGY-ENTREPRENEURSHIP (CN)

(240220) -- BEIJING, Feb. 20, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Zhu Rui (back) observes doctors using OCT equipment at Beijing Anzhen Hospital in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 18, 2024. On Feb. 18, the first working day after China's Spring Festival holiday, Zhu Rui, founder of medical device company Vivolight, came to the catheter operating room of Beijing Anzhen Hospital to learn about the use of OCT equipment produced by his company. OCT, or optical coherence tomography technology, allows doctors to examine patients and display real-time three-dimensional images where the catheter passes, providing guide for surgery. Since graduating from Tsinghua University in 2006, Zhu has been engaged in OCT related research and product development. His role has changed from a student, a researcher to an entrepreneur. While studying in Beijing, Zhu built an OCT system for ophthalmology. While studying for his PhD in Hong Kong, he realized the potential value of OCT technology in cardiovascular surgery. In 2012, he gave up his

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CHINA-BEIJING-OCT TECHNOLOGY-ENTREPRENEURSHIP (CN)

(240220) -- BEIJING, Feb. 20, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Zhu Rui adjusts OCT equipment at a laboratory of a branch office of Vivolight in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Jan. 18, 2024. On Feb. 18, the first working day after China's Spring Festival holiday, Zhu Rui, founder of medical device company Vivolight, came to the catheter operating room of Beijing Anzhen Hospital to learn about the use of OCT equipment produced by his company. OCT, or optical coherence tomography technology, allows doctors to examine patients and display real-time three-dimensional images where the catheter passes, providing guide for surgery. Since graduating from Tsinghua University in 2006, Zhu has been engaged in OCT related research and product development. His role has changed from a student, a researcher to an entrepreneur. While studying in Beijing, Zhu built an OCT system for ophthalmology. While studying for his PhD in Hong Kong, he realized the potential value of OCT technology in cardiovascular surgery. In 2012,

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CHINA-BEIJING-OCT TECHNOLOGY-ENTREPRENEURSHIP (CN)

(240220) -- BEIJING, Feb. 20, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Zhu Rui (R) talks with his partner Dr. Mi Lei in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Jan. 19, 2024. On Feb. 18, the first working day after China's Spring Festival holiday, Zhu Rui, founder of medical device company Vivolight, came to the catheter operating room of Beijing Anzhen Hospital to learn about the use of OCT equipment produced by his company. OCT, or optical coherence tomography technology, allows doctors to examine patients and display real-time three-dimensional images where the catheter passes, providing guide for surgery. Since graduating from Tsinghua University in 2006, Zhu has been engaged in OCT related research and product development. His role has changed from a student, a researcher to an entrepreneur. While studying in Beijing, Zhu built an OCT system for ophthalmology. While studying for his PhD in Hong Kong, he realized the potential value of OCT technology in cardiovascular surgery. In 2012, he gave up his doctoral studies

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CHINA-BEIJING-OCT TECHNOLOGY-ENTREPRENEURSHIP (CN)

(240220) -- BEIJING, Feb. 20, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Zhu Rui attends a video conference with experts at a branch office of Vivolight in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Jan. 19, 2024. On Feb. 18, the first working day after China's Spring Festival holiday, Zhu Rui, founder of medical device company Vivolight, came to the catheter operating room of Beijing Anzhen Hospital to learn about the use of OCT equipment produced by his company. OCT, or optical coherence tomography technology, allows doctors to examine patients and display real-time three-dimensional images where the catheter passes, providing guide for surgery. Since graduating from Tsinghua University in 2006, Zhu has been engaged in OCT related research and product development. His role has changed from a student, a researcher to an entrepreneur. While studying in Beijing, Zhu built an OCT system for ophthalmology. While studying for his PhD in Hong Kong, he realized the potential value of OCT technology in cardiovascular surgery. In 2012

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CHINA-BEIJING-OCT TECHNOLOGY-ENTREPRENEURSHIP (CN)

(240220) -- BEIJING, Feb. 20, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Jan. 12, 2024 shows a portrait of Zhu Rui. On Feb. 18, the first working day after China's Spring Festival holiday, Zhu Rui, founder of medical device company Vivolight, came to the catheter operating room of Beijing Anzhen Hospital to learn about the use of OCT equipment produced by his company. OCT, or optical coherence tomography technology, allows doctors to examine patients and display real-time three-dimensional images where the catheter passes, providing guide for surgery. Since graduating from Tsinghua University in 2006, Zhu has been engaged in OCT related research and product development. His role has changed from a student, a researcher to an entrepreneur. While studying in Beijing, Zhu built an OCT system for ophthalmology. While studying for his PhD in Hong Kong, he realized the potential value of OCT technology in cardiovascular surgery. In 2012, he gave up his doctoral studies and tried to transform the achievements in h

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Mt. Fuji chosen as Heritage site

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from Yamanakako, Yamanashi Prefecture, shows photographers and tourists taking the pictures of the "diamond Fuji" phenomenon, or a diamond ring-like sun on the edge of Mt. Fuji, on Feb 18, 2012. The World Heritage Committee of UNESCO on June 22, 2013, decided to inscribe Mt. Fuji on the World Heritage List.

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Maestro Ozawa

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa. He will make a comeback in August 2013 at the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto, conducting French composer Maurice Ravel's opera "The Child and the Spells," the festival's organizing committee said Feb. 18, 2013. Ozawa has suspended public musical activities since March 2012 to recover his strength and concentrate on rehabilitation after his condition deteriorated.

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Empress chose kimono to support emperor

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko bow to bereaved families of victims of the devastating March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, during a government ceremony in Tokyo on March 11, 2012, to mark the first anniversary of the disaster. The empress chose to wear a kimono and Japanese sandals so she could move more easily to support the emperor, who had been discharged from the hospital a week earlier after undergoing heart bypass surgery on Feb. 18, in the event he were to fall, a senior Imperial Household Agency official said on March 15. (Pool photo)

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Emperor discharged from hospital

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko are met by staff while leaving the University of Tokyo Hospital in Tokyo on March 4, 2012. The 78-year-old emperor went through cardiac rehabilitation programs after undergoing heart bypass surgery for angina on Feb. 18. (Pool photo)

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Emperor discharged from hospital

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito leaves the University of Tokyo Hospital in Tokyo on March 4, 2012, accompanied by Empress Michiko. The 78-year-old emperor went through cardiac rehabilitation programs after undergoing heart bypass surgery for angina on Feb. 18. (Pool photo)

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Emperor discharged from hospital

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito leaves the University of Tokyo Hospital in Tokyo on March 4, 2012, accompanied by Empress Michiko. The 78-year-old emperor went through cardiac rehabilitation programs after undergoing heart bypass surgery for angina on Feb. 18. (Pool photo)

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Emperor discharged from hospital

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito waves from a car as he arrives at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo after being released from the University of Tokyo Hospital on March 4, 2012. The 78-year-old emperor went through cardiac rehabilitation programs after undergoing heart bypass surgery for angina on Feb. 18.

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Talking robot 'Unazuki Kabochan'

OSAKA, Japan - A woman holds a robot called ''Unazuki Kabochan'' in Osaka on Feb. 29, 2012, that medical products maker Pip Co. and Osaka City University developed for elderly people. The robot has many functions including nodding and talking using 400 phrases, and reacting to light, sound and touches. The developers said improvements in cognitive ability and soothing effects have been confirmed after 18 women living alone aged 65 or older lived with the robot for two months.

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Crown Prince Naruhito

TOKYO, Japan - Crown Prince Naruhito arrives at the University of Tokyo Hospital in Tokyo on Feb. 23, 2012, to visit his 78-year-old father, Emperor Akihito, who underwent heart bypass surgery there on Feb. 18. The crown prince turned 52 on Feb. 23.

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U.S. Air Force civilian worker sentenced

NAHA, Japan - Shoji Arakaki (L) heads for the Naha District Court in Okinawa Prefecture on Feb. 22, 2012. The court sentenced Rufus James Ramsey III, a 24-year-old salesclerk at a U.S. base shop in the southern prefecture, to 18 months in prison over a fatal vehicle collision involving Arakaki's friend Koki Yogi in January the previous year. It was the first application of new Japan-U.S. arrangements over crimes involving nonmilitary personnel at U.S. bases.

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U.S. Air Force civilian worker sentenced

NAHA, Japan - Rufus James Ramsey III (R), a 24-year-old salesclerk at a U.S. base shop in Okinawa Prefecture, heads for the Naha District Court in the prefecture on Feb. 22, 2012. The court sentenced the U.S. Air Force employee to 18 months in prison over a fatal vehicle collision in January the previous year, in the first application of new Japan-U.S. arrangements over crimes involving nonmilitary personnel at U.S. bases.

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Death penalty for murder

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 20, 2012, shows flowers and other items placed at the door of an apartment in Hikari, Yamaguchi Prefecture, where Yayoi Motomura, 23, and her 11-month-old daughter Yuka were murdered by Takayuki Otsuki, then 18, in 1999. The Supreme Court on the day upheld a lower court sentence of capital punishment for Otsuki.

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1 year after N.Z. quake

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Photo shows a section of Christchurch, New Zealand, kept off-limits on Feb. 18, 2012, nearly a year after a major quake. Seen in the background is the cathedral damaged in the Feb. 22, 2011, disaster.

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Death penalty for murder

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Motomura is pictured during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 20, 2012. The Supreme Court earlier in the day upheld a lower court sentence of capital punishment for a man over the murder of Motomura's wife and their baby girl in Hikari, Yamaguchi Prefecture, in 1999 when the man was 18.

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Kyokawa, a new Nadeshiko

SENDAI, Japan - Mai Kyokawa, an 18-year-old striker at Tokiwagi Gakuen High School in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, shows her soccer ball control skills before reporters in Sendai on Feb. 20, 2012, after she was selected as a member of the Japan national women's soccer team, nicknamed Nadeshiko, for the first time. The Japan Football Association announced the same day that injured FIFA Women's World Player of the Year Homare Sawa and Kyokawa were among a 21-member squad for the upcoming Algarve Cup in Portugal.

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Kyokawa, a new Nadeshiko

SENDAI, Japan - Mai Kyokawa, an 18-year-old striker at Tokiwagi Gakuen High School in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, holds a press conference in Sendai on Feb. 20, 2012, after she was selected as a member of the Japan national women's soccer team, nicknamed Nadeshiko, for the first time. The Japan Football Association announced the same day that injured FIFA Women's World Player of the Year Homare Sawa and Kyokawa were among a 21-member squad for the upcoming Algarve Cup in Portugal.

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Death penalty for murder

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Motomura is pictured during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 20, 2012. The Supreme Court earlier in the day upheld a lower court sentence of capital punishment for a man over the murder of Motomura's wife and their baby girl in Hikari, Yamaguchi Prefecture, in 1999 when the man was 18.

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Death penalty for murder

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Motomura (front C) enters the Supreme Court in Tokyo on Feb. 20, 2012. The Supreme Court that day upheld a lower court sentence of capital punishment for a man over the murder of Motomura's wife and their baby girl in Hikari, Yamaguchi Prefecture, in 1999 when the defendant was 18.

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Japanese-Americans WWII internment

LOS ANGELES, United States - Actor George Takei (L) and Norman Mineta, former U.S. transportation secretary, are pictured in Los Angeles on Feb. 18, 2012, after announcing the launch of the Remembrance Project, a website to allow the sharing of stories about the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

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Darvish's father

SURPRISE, United States - Farsad Darvish, father of Texas Rangers right-hander Yu Darvish, speaks with reporters in Surprise, Arizona, on Feb. 18, 2012, during a visit to the site of the major league team's spring training.

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'Music from Japan' festival in New York

NEW YORK, United States - Harpist Fuyuhiko Sasaki plays a restored ''kugo'' harp that was used in ancient Asia, during the ''Music from Japan'' festival in Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center in New York on Feb. 18, 2012.

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Japanese animation creator Wada in Berlin

BERLIN, Germany - Japanese animation creator Atsushi Wada is pictured at a press conference in Berlin on Feb. 18, 2012. ''Great Rabbit,'' a French animated film directed by Wada, won the silver award the same day in the short film section of the Berlin International Film Festival.

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Mayor of nuclear disaster-hit Iitate village

NEW YORK, United States - Norio Kanno, the mayor of Iitate in Fukushima Prefecture, a village badly affected by the nuclear crisis following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, addresses an audience in New York on Feb. 18, 2012, about the villagers' efforts to recover from the disaster.

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Japanese director Imaizumi in Berlin

BERLIN, Germany - Japanese film director Kaori Imaizumi gives a speech in Berlin on Feb. 18, 2012. A jury comprised of children at the Berlin International Film Festival gave a special award for a film for viewers aged 13 or younger to ''Kikoeteru, furi o shita dake'' (I only pretended to hear you), directed by Imaizumi, who is also a nurse in Tokyo.

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KARA in concert

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean female pop group KARA holds a concert in Seoul on Feb. 18, 2012.

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Japan ground force in S. Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan - Vehicles take materials from Juba airport in South Sudan to a depot of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force engineering unit on Feb. 18, 2012. They are in South Sudan to help build infrastructure under a U.N. peacekeeping mission.

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Emperor undergoes heart bypass surgery

TOKYO, Japan - Atsushi Amano, a professor at Juntendo University, speaks in a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 18, 2012, after he and other doctors performed heart bypass surgery on Emperor Akihito.

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World Cup moguls

YUZAWA, Japan - Canadian Mikael Kingsbury clinches the men's overall World Cup moguls crown after winning his eight gold of the season with a high score of 25.34 at Naeba Ski Resort in Niigata Prefecture on Feb. 18, 2012.

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Emperor undergoes heart bypass surgery

TOKYO, Japan - (From R) Ichiro Kanazawa, the imperial household's main doctor, Atsushi Amano, a Juntendo University professor, Minoru Ono, a University of Tokyo professor, Ryozo Nagai, a University of Tokyo professor, and Takashi Kadowaki, director of University of Tokyo Hospital, attend a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 18, 2012, after performing heart bypass surgery on Emperor Akihito.

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Defense minister in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - Japanese Defense Minister Naoki Tanaka (L) shakes hands with Lt. Gen. Kenneth J. Glueck Jr., Okinawa area coordinator and commanding officer of the III Marine Expeditionary Force of the United States, at Camp Foster in Okinawa Prefecture on Feb. 18, 2012.

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World Cup moguls

YUZAWA, Japan - American Hannah Kearney extends her record winning streak to 16 straight World Cup moguls titles with an outstanding score of 25.49 at Naeba Ski Resort in Niigata Prefecture on Feb. 18, 2012.

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Emperor undergoes heart bypass surgery

TOKYO, Japan - People write goodwill messages for Emperor Akihito at a location beside the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Feb. 18, 2012. The emperor underwent heart bypass surgery after being diagnosed with angina.

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World Cup moguls

YUZAWA, Japan - American Hannah Kearney extends her record winning streak to 16 straight World Cup moguls titles with an outstanding score of 25.49 at Naeba Ski Resort in Niigata Prefecture on Feb. 18, 2012.

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Emperor undergoes heart bypass surgery

TOKYO, Japan - People head to a location beside the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Feb. 18, 2012, to write goodwill messages for Emperor Akihito, who underwent heart bypass surgery after being diagnosed with angina.

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Emperor undergoes heart bypass surgery

TOKYO, Japan - People visit a location beside the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Feb. 18, 2012, to write goodwill messages for Emperor Akihito, who underwent heart bypass surgery after being diagnosed with angina.

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Defense minister in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - Defense Minister Naoki Tanaka (front L) views the planned relocation site at the U.S. Marine Corps' Camp Schwab in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, for functions of the Marines' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan in the same prefecture, on Feb. 18, 2012.

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Emperor undergoes heart bypass surgery

TOKYO, Japan - People write goodwill messages for Emperor Akihito at a location beside the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Feb. 18, 2012. The emperor underwent heart bypass surgery after being diagnosed with angina.

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Emperor undergoes heart bypass surgery

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Feb. 16, 2012, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows University of Tokyo Hospital in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward where Emperor Akihito underwent heart bypass surgery on Feb. 18, 2012, after he was diagnosed with angina.

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Nishikori climbs to No. 18 in ATP rankings

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Jan. 31, 2012, shows Japanese tennis player Kei Nishikori. He was listed at No. 18 in the latest ATP rankings released on Feb. 13.

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Emperor to undergo heart bypass surgery

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito arrives at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2012 after spending the previous night in University of Tokyo Hospital, where he underwent a detailed heart exam on Feb. 11. The 78-year-old emperor will undergo heart bypass surgery on Feb. 18 at the hospital, the Imperial Household Agency said on Feb. 12.

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Emperor to undergo heart bypass surgery

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko leave University of Tokyo Hospital in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2012, where the emperor underwent a detailed heart exam the previous day. The 78-year-old emperor will undergo heart bypass surgery on Feb. 18 at the hospital, the Imperial Household Agency said on Feb. 12.