Company: QTIWW
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001844505-25-000038
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Company: QT IMAGING HOLDINGS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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30 See, Boston Scientific, Cryoablation available at https://www.bostonscientific.com/en-US/products/cryoablation.html. 

31 InterventionalNews, Cryoablation Shows Promise in Treating Low-Risk Breast Cancer (Jan. 8, 2019), available at https://interventionalnews.com/cryoablation-breast-cancers/.

32 U.S. National Library of Medicine, Cryoablation Therapy in Treating Patients with Invasive Ductal Breast Cancer, available at https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00723294 (last visited Feb. 10, 2023). 

33 Healio, Cryoablation May be Promising Alternative to Surgery for Low-Risk Breast Cancer (Mar. 4, 2019), available at https://www.healio.com/hematology-oncology/breast-cancer/news/online/%7Be2c51338-c13b-44f6-8690-b01307340d21%7D/cryoablation-may-be-promising-alternative-to-surgery-for-low-risk-breast-cancer.

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Cryoablation of early-stage breast cancer is an exciting opportunity unique to the Company. Breast cancer cells are about 20 microns wide. A 1-cm cancer has about 100 million cells, a 0.5-cm cancer has about 10 million cells, and a 1-mm cancer has about 100 thousand cells.34 The Company’s imaging can see the glandular structure of the breast and can see as few as a couple of thousand cells. These cancers of several hundred thousand cells are very low risk to the woman and are also easily eliminated35. There are currently limited ways to treat these small cancers using image guided procedures. The Company could offer a solution to this problem. 

The Product 

The product for image-guided procedures would be the Open Partial Angle Scanner augmented with enhanced software. The Open Breast Scanner is shown in Image 26 below (concept drawing). 

The Open Partial Angle Scanner for Breast Imaging 

Image 26 

34 National Library of Medicine, Disappearing Breast Cancers (Apr. 2012), available at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3320224/. 

35 See, AJR, Robert C. Ward, Ana P. Lourenco & Martha B. Mainiero, Ultrasound-G