Insightec

INSIGHTEC Ltd., is an Israeli privately held medical device company that sells MR guided Focused Ultrasound equipment.

[1] The company was founded by Kobi Vortman and Oded Tamir, with seed investment from Elbit Medical Imaging and GE Healthcare.

[4] In 2012 the company obtained a PMA from the FDA to market the system to treat pain from metastatic bone cancer who had failed other treatments.

[6] In 2012, the company received European CE mark for the treatment of neurological disorders in the brain including essential tremor, Parkinson's disease and neuropathic pain.

[8] In 2016, Insightec obtained a PMA from the FDA to market its Exablate Neuro system to treat essential tremor,[9] and the next month published data from the pivotal trial in the New England Journal of Medicine.