yehuda israel key people dr. yuvi kahana dr. alexander kots dr. alexander paritsky products high performance optical sensing products and communications systems website http optoacoustics.com optoacoustics ltd 1 is a private company that makes fiber optic based acoustic microphones fiber optic microphones headphones accelerometers sensors telephony accessories and other components primarily for medical industrial environmental and research applications . contents 1 history 2 products 3 references 4 external links history edit established in 2006 optoacoustics founders are the inventors of the original fiber optical microphone . 2 3 the company pioneered the microphone s commercial manufacture which is now in its third generation . in 2008 optoacoustics began installing the first fully optical fiber based communication systems for interventional magnetic resonance imaging imri at leading u.s. research and clinical hospitals . 4 this system enables doctors staff and patients to converse normally while performing complex mri medical procedures safely abating noise levels of more than 120 db commonly found in these environments . optoacoustics fiber optical microphones are also used in functional magnetic resonance imaging fmri environments to enable brain researchers to better understand the underlying workings of human speech and communications . 5 6 optoacoustics products combine two physical disciplines optics and acoustics to meet requirements which can not be addressed by conventional sensing solutions . in particular optoacoustics products do not react to or influence any electrical magnetic electrostatic or radioactive fields offering complete emi rfi immunity . the company s technology is protected by over 20 international patents . products edit microphones headphones and headsets accelerometers vibration sensors communications systems with emi rfi immunity references edit optoacoustics web site paritsky alexander ; kots a. 1997 . fiber optic microphone as a realization of fiber optic positioning sensors . proc . of international society for optical engineering spie . 3110 408 409 . 1 us patent 6462808 alexander paritsky and alexander kots small optical microphone sensor issued 2002 10 08 case study can you hear me now . rt image . valley forge publishing . pp. 30 31 . retrieved 2009 08 23 . nessaiver dept. of diagnostic radiology univ. of maryland medical school maryland usa m. ; stone m ; parthasarathy v ; kahana y ; paritsky a 2006 . recording high quality speech during tagged cine mri studies using a fiber optic microphone . journal of magnetic resonance imaging . january 1 92 7 . doi 10.1002 jmri .20463 . pmid 16331589 . cs1 maint multiple names authors list link 2 m. papoutsi centre for speech language and the brain univ. of cambridge england m. ; de zwart ja ; jansma jm ; pickering mj ; bednar ja ; horwitz b 2009 . from phonemes to articulatory codes an fmri study of the role of broca s area in speech production . cerebral cortex . 19 9 2156 2165 . doi 10.1093 cercor bhn239 . pmc 2722428 . pmid 19181696 . cs1 maint multiple names authors list link 3 external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title optoacoustics & oldid 647097589 categories microphone manufacturerscompanies established in 2006electronics companies of israelhidden categories cs1 maint multiple names authors list navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 14 february 2015 at 13 22 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view