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                                                                    EXHIBIT 10.1

                                 DATASCOPE CORP

                             STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT

         Agreement, made as of the 15th day of May, 2001 between DATASCOPE CORP.
(the "Company"), a Delaware corporation, and William L. Asmundson (the
"Optionee"), residing at ___________________________________________ (the
"Agreement").

         The Optionee has been elected as a director of the Company at the Board
of Directors meeting held on May 15, 2001. The Company has agreed that, in
addition to director's fees, the Optionee should receive a ten-year option to
purchase 5,000 shares of Common Stock of the Company. Accordingly, on May 15,
2001 the Board of Directors of the Company approved the grant by the Company to
the Optionee of a stock option to purchase 5,000 shares of the Company's Common
Stock, par value $.01 per share (the "Shares"), subject to and upon the terms
and conditions set forth herein the "Option").

         Therefore, in consideration of the premises and other good and valuable
consideration, the parties hereto have agreed as follows:

         1.       (a) The price at which the Optionee shall have the right to
purchase Shares under this Agreement is $35.22 per share, subject to adjustment
as provided in Paragraph 4.

                  (b) Subject to Paragraph 1(c), unless the option is previously
terminated pursuant to this Agreement the Option shall be exercisable with
respect to all 5,000 Shares on May 15, 2001 and ending May 14, 2011; provided,
however, that the Option shall cease to be exercisable on the date of the
termination of the Optionee's status as a director of the Company.

                  (c) If the Optionee's status as a director of the Company
terminates due to disability or to death, the Option shall be exercisable as
provided in this subparagraph. The Optionee or, in the event of the Optionee's
disability, his duly appointed guardian or conservator or, in the event of the
Optionee's death, his duly appointed executor or administrator shall have the
privilege of exercising the unexercised portion of the Option which the Optionee
could have exercised on the day on which his status as a director of the company
terminated, provided, however, such exercise must be in accordance with the
terms of this Agreement and within one (1) year of the Optionee's disability or
death, as the case may be. In no event, however, shall the Optionee or his duly
appointed guardian or conservator or his duly appointed executor or
administrator, as the case may be, exercise the Option after May 14, 2011.

         2.       Nothing contained herein shall be construed (i) to confer on
the Optionee any right to continue to serve as a director of the Company or (ii)
to obligate the Company (including its shareholders, directors and officers) to
either re-nominate the Optionee for election or re-elect the nominee to serve as
a director or (iii) to derogate from any right of the Company (including its
shareholders, directors and officers) to remove or request the resignation of
the Optionee from the Company's Board of Directors.

         3.       (a) The Option shall not be sold, pledged, assigned or
transferred in any manner except to the extent that the Option may be exercised
as provided in Paragraph 1(c).

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                  (b) For all purposes of this Agreement, except the Preamble
and Paragraph 1(b), the term "Optionee" shall include any person entitled to
exercise the option pursuant to Paragraph 1(c).

         4.       (a) If the outstanding Shares of the Company are subdivided,
consolidated, increased, decreased, changed into or exchanged for a different
number or kind of shares or securities of the Company through reorganization,
merger, recapitalization, reclassification, capital adjustment or otherwise, or
if the Company shall issue Shares as a dividend or upon a stock split, then the
number and kind of shares subject to the unexercised portion of the option and
the exercise price of the Option shall be adjusted to prevent the inequitable
enlargement or dilution of any rights hereunder, provided, however, that any
such adjustment shall be made without change in the total exercise price
applicable to the unexercised portion of the option. Adjustments under this
paragraph shall be made by the Board of Directors, whose determination shall be
final and binding and conclusive. In computing any adjustment under this
paragraph, any fractional share shall be eliminated. Nothing contained in this
Agreement shall be construed to affect in any way the right or power of the
Company to make any adjustment, reclassification, reorganization or changes to
its capital or business structure or to merge or to consolidate or to dissolve,
liquidate or transfer all or any part of its business or assets.

                  (b) In the event of the dissolution or liquidation of the
Company, or in the event of a merger or consolidation in which (1) the Company
is not the surviving corporation, and (2) the agreements governing such merger
or consolidation do not provide for the issuance to the Optionee of a Substitute
Option (as hereinafter defined) or the express assumption of this Option, the
Option and any rights hereunder shall terminate as of the effective date of any
such dissolution, liquidation, merger or consolidation date. For purposes of
this Paragraph 4, a Substitute Option shall mean an option under which the
Optionee has the right to purchase on substantially equivalent terms (as
hereinafter defined) (in lieu of Shares), the stock, securities or other
property he would have been entitled to receive upon the consummation of such
merger or consolidation had he exercised the option immediately prior thereto.

         5.       The Option shall be exercised when written notice of such
exercise, signed by the Optionee, has been delivered or transmitted by
registered or certified mail, to the Secretary of the Company at its principal
office. Said written notice shall specify the number of Shares purchasable under
the Option which the Optionee then wishes to purchase and shall be accompanied
by (i) such documentation, if any, as may be required by the Company as provided
in Paragraph 6 or 7 and (ii payment of the aggregate option price Such payment
shall be in the form of i) cash or a certified check unless such certification
is waived by the Company) payable to the order of the Company in the amount of
the aggregate option price for such number of Shares, (ii) certificates duly
endorsed for transfer (with all transfer taxes paid or provided for) evidencing
a number of Shares of which the aggregate fair market value on the date of
exercise is equal to the aggregate option exercise price of the shares being
purchased, or (iii) a combination of these methods of payment. Delivery of said
notice and such documentation shall constitute an irrevocable election to
purchase the shares specified in said notice, and the date on which the Company
receives said notice and documentation shall, subject to the provisions of
Paragraphs 6 and 7, be the date as of which the Shares so purchased shall be
deemed to have been issued. The Optionee shall not have the right or status as a
holder of the Shares to which such exercise relates prior to receipt by the
Company of such payment, notice and documentation. For purposes of this
Agreement, the fair market value per Share on a given date shall be: (i if the
Shares are listed on a registered securities exchange or included in the
National Market System, the closing price per Share on such date (or, if there
was no trading on such exchange on such date, on the next preceding day on which
there was trading); (ii) if the Shares are not listed on a registered securities
exchange or included in the National Market System, but the bid and asked prices
per Share are provided by NASDAQ, the National Quotation Bureau Incorporated or
any similar organization the average of the closing bid and asked price per
Share on such date (or, if there was no trading in the Shares on such date, on
the next preceding day on which there was trading) as provided by such
organization; and (iii) if the Shares are not traded on a registered securities
exchange and the bid and asked prices per Share are not provided by NASDAQ, the
National Quotation Bureau Incorporated or any similar organization, as
determined by the agreement of the parties in good faith or, in the absence of
such agreement, as determined pursuant to arbitration under the auspices of the
American Arbitration Association.

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         6.       Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, in
no event may the Option be exercisable if the Company shall determine in good
faith that (i) the listing, registration or qualification of any Shares
otherwise deliverable upon such exercise, upon any securities exchange or under
any state or federal law, or (ii) the consent or approval of any regulatory body
or the satisfaction of withholding tax or other withholding liabilities is
necessary or desirable in connection with such exercise. In such event, such
exercise shall be held in abeyance and shall not be effective unless and until
such withholding, listing, registration, qualification or approval shall have
been effected or obtained free of any conditions not reasonably acceptable to
the Company.

         7.       (a) The Company shall not be deemed obligated to the Optionee
to register any of the Shares which may be acquired pursuant to any exercise of
the option under the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Act"). The Optionee
acknowledges that, if the Shares are not so registered, his acquisition of any
of the shares pursuant to an exercise of the Option will be made in part in
reliance upon the exemption from the registration requirements of the Act
afforded by Section 4(2) of the Act for transactions by an issuer not involving
any public offering. The Optionee further acknowledges that the Company's
reliance upon this exemption at the time of any exercise of the Option will be
predicated upon the Optionee's representation at that time that such Shares are
being acquired by him as an investment solely for his account and that he then
has no intention of selling, pledging transferring or otherwise distributing or
disposing of all or any part of such Shares or any interest or participation
therein except as permitted by the Act and the rules and regulations promulgated
thereunder. The Optionee further acknowledges that, accordingly, if the Shares
are not so registered, the receipt by the Board of Directors of written
representations to such effect is a condition precedent to the right to exercise
the Option, in whole or in part.

                  (b) The Optionee agrees that there will be no disposition of
all or any part of the Shares acquired pursuant to any exercise of the option or
any interest or interests therein, unless and until such disposition has been
registered under the Act or the Company receives an opinion of its counsel that
registration under the Act is not required in connection with such disposition.

                  (c) The Optionee agrees that upon any exercise of the option,
unless the Shares acquired pursuant to such exercise have been registered under
the Act, the transfer agent for the Shares acquired pursuant to such exercise
will be instructed to place appropriate stop orders against the transfer of the
Shares and that the certificate or certificates to be issued representing the
Shares will conspicuously bear a legend substantially as follows:

         The shares represented by this certificate have not been registered
         under the Securities Act of 1933. The shares have been acquired for
         investment and may not be sold, transferred, pledged, hypothecated or
         otherwise disposed of in the absence of an effective registration
         statement for the shares under the Securities Act of 1933 or an opinion
         of counsel to the Company that registration is not required under said
         Act.

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                  (d) The Optionee acknowledges that he is presently familiar
with the Company's business, operations and financial condition. In this
connection, the Company agrees that, upon the request of the Optionee, it will
provide the Optionee with a copy of its then most recent Annual Report to
Shareholders, its then most recent definitive Proxy Statement in connection with
a meeting of its shareholders for the election of directors, its then most
recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, and all Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and
Current Reports on Form 8-K filed by the Company with the Securities and
Exchange Commission subsequent to the filing of its then most recent Annual
Report on Form 10-K. In addition, the principal officers of the Company will be
reasonably available to discuss with the Optionee the information contained in
these documents.

         8.       This Agreement shall be construed and enforced in accordance
with the laws of the State of Delaware.

         9.       Subject to Paragraphs 1(c) and 3, this Agreement shall be
binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their
respective heirs, personal representatives, successors or assigns, as the case
may be

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the
date first above written.

                                                 OPTIONEE:

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DATASCOPE CORP.

By:
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                                                                    EXHIBIT 10.2

                                 DATASCOPE CORP.

                             STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT

         THIS AGREEMENT (the "Agreement"), made as of this 15th day of May,
2001, by and between DATASCOPE CORP. (the "Company"), a Delaware corporation,
and Jorgen K. Winther (the "Optionee"), residing at ___________________________.

         WHEREAS, Optionee is a consultant to the Company pursuant to the terms
of that certain letter agreement dated July 1, 1999;

         WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the Company or, if so designated, a
Committee of the Board of Directors (the "Committee") has adopted a resolution
granting Optionee a stock option (the "Option") to purchase 500 shares of the
Company's Common Stock, par value $.01 per share ("Shares"), subject to and upon
the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth (the "Option").

         NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and mutual covenants
contained herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the adequacy and
receipt of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties agree as follows:

         1.       (a) The price at which Optionee shall have the right to
purchase Shares under this Agreement is $39.45 per share subject to adjustment
as provided in Paragraph 4 below.

                  (b) Unless the Option is previously terminated pursuant to
this Agreement, the Option shall be exercisable during the period or periods
specified in the table below:

     Number of Shares        Exercisable On or After        Exercisable Until
     ----------------        -----------------------        -----------------
           125                       5-15-02                     5-14-11
           125                       5-15-03                     5-14-11
           125                       5-15-04                     5-14-11
           125                       5-15-05                     5-14-11

In no event shall any Shares be purchasable under this Agreement after May 14,
2011 (the "Expiration Date"). Except as provided in subparagraph 1(c) hereof,
the Option shall cease to be exercisable on the date Optionee voluntarily or
involuntarily terminates his services as a consultant or employee of the Company
or any subsidiary of the Company, and all rights of Optionee hereunder shall
thereupon terminate. For purposes of this Agreement, a subsidiary of the Company
is a "subsidiary corporation" as defined in Section 424 (f) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1954, as amended (the "Code") or any partnership of which the
Company or any subsidiary of the Company is a general partner.

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                  (c) If Optionee ceases to be a consultant or employee of the
Company or any subsidiary of the Company and this cessation is due to retirement
(as defined by the Board or, if so designated, by the Committee in its sole
discretion), or to disability (as defined in each case by the Board or, if so
designated, by the Committee in its sole discretion) or to death, the Option
shall be exercisable as provided in this subparagraph. Optionee or, in the event
of his disability, his duly appointed guardian or conservator or, in the event
of his death, his executor or administrator shall have the privilege of
exercising the unexercised portion of the Option which Optionee could have
exercised on the day on which his status as a consultant to the Company or any
subsidiary of the Company was terminated, provided, however, that such exercise
must be in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and within three (3)
months of Optionee's retirement or within one (1) year of Optionee's disability
or death, as the case may be. In no event, however, shall Optionee or his
executor or administrator, as the case may be, exercise the Option after the
Expiration Date specified in subparagraph 1(b). For all purposes of this
Agreement, an approved leave of absence shall not constitute an interruption or
cessation of Optionee's service as a consultant of the Company or any subsidiary
of the Company.

                  (d) The Option is not intended to satisfy the requirements for
an incentive stock option under the Code. The Company makes no representations
or warranties as to the income, estate or other tax consequences to Optionee of
the grant or exercise of the Option or the sale or other disposition of the
shares acquired pursuant to the exercise thereof.

         2.       Nothing contained herein shall be construed to confer on
Optionee any right to continue as a consultant of the Company or any subsidiary
of the Company or to derogate from any right of the Company or any subsidiary
thereof to terminate any consulting arrangement or agreement with Optionee, or
to retire, request the resignation of, layoff or require a leave of absence of
Optionee, with or without pay, at any time, with or without cause.

         3.       The Option shall not be sold, pledged, assigned or transferred
in any manner except to the extent that the Option may be exercised by an
executor or administrator as provided in subparagraph 1 (c) above. The Option
may be exercised, during the lifetime of Optionee, only by Optionee, or his duly
appointed conservator or guardian in the event of his disability.

         4.       (a) If the outstanding Shares of the Company are subdivided,
consolidated, increased, decreased, changed into or exchanged for a different
number or kind of shares or securities of the Company through reorganization,
merger, recapitalization, reclassification, capital adjustment or otherwise, or
if the Company shall issue Shares as a dividend or upon a stock split, then the
number and kind of shares subject to the unexercised portion of the Option and
the exercise price of the Option shall be adjusted to prevent the inequitable
enlargement or dilution of any rights hereunder, provided, however, that any
such adjustment shall be made without change in the total exercise price
applicable to the unexercised portion of the option, Adjustments under this
paragraph shall be made by the Board or, if so designated, by the Committee,
whose determination shall be final and binding and conclusive, In computing any
adjustment under this paragraph, any fractional Share shall be eliminated.
Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be construed to affect in any way the
right or power of the Company to make any adjustment, reclassification,
reorganization or changes to its capital or business structure or to merge or to
consolidate or to dissolve, liquidate or transfer all or any part of its
business or assets. Distributions to the Company's shareholders consisting of
property other than shares of Common Stock of the Company or its successor and
distributions to shareholders of rights to subscribe for Common Stock shall not
result in the adjustment of the Shares purchasable under outstanding options or
the exercise price of outstanding options.

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                  (b) If in the event of the dissolution or liquidation of the
Company, or in the event of a merger or consolidation in which (1) the Company
is not the surviving corporation, and (2) the agreement governing such merger or
consolidation do not provide for the issuance to Optionee of a Substitute Option
(as hereinafter defined) or the express assumption of this Option, Optionee
shall have the right immediately prior to the effective date of such merger,
consolidation, dissolution or liquidation to exercise the Option in whole or in
part, without regard to any installment provisions contained in subparagraph
1(b); provided, that any conditions precedent to such exercise set forth in this
Agreement, other than the passage of time, have occurred. In such event, the
Company will mail or cause to be mailed to Optionee a notice specifying the date
on which holders of Shares shall be entitled to exchange their shares for
securities or other property deliverable in connection with such merger,
consolidation, dissolution or liquidation, Such notice shall be mailed at least
ten 10) days prior to the date therein specified to the address of Optionee
specified on page of this Agreement or to such other address as Optionee
delivers or transmits by registered or certified mail to the treasurer of the
Company at its principal office. In the event the Option is not exercised on or
prior to the date specified therein, the Option and any rights hereunder shall
terminate as of said date. For purposes of this Paragraph 4, a "Substitute
Option" shall mean an option under which Optionee has the right to purchase on
substantially equivalent terms (as hereinafter defined) (in lieu of Shares), the
stock, securities, or other property he would have been entitled to receive upon
the consummation of such merger or consolidation had he exercised the option
immediately prior thereto. For purposes of the preceding sentence, substantially
equivalent terms" shall be those terms given approval by the Board or, if so
designated, the Committee, in their sole discretion.

         5.       The Option shall be exercised when written notice of such
exercise, signed by Optionee has been delivered or transmitted by registered or
certified mail, to the Secretary of the Company at its principal office. Said
written notice shall specify the number of Shares purchasable under the Option
which Optionee then wishes to purchase and shall be accompanied by (i) such
documentation, if any, as may be required by the Company as provided in
Paragraph 7 hereof and (ii) payment of the aggregate option price. Such payment
shall be in the form of (i) cash or a certified check (unless such certification
is waive by the Company) payable to the order of the Company in the amount of
the aggregate option price for such number of shares, (ii) certificates duly
endorsed for transfer (with all transfer taxes paid or provided for) evidencing
a number of shares of Common Stock of the Company of which the aggregate fair
market value on the date of exercise is equal to the aggregate option exercise
price of the shares being purchased or (iii) a combination of these methods of
payment. Delivery of said notice and such documentation shall constitute an
irrevocable election to purchase the Shares specified in said notice and the
date on which the Company receives said notice and documentation shall, subject
to the provisions of Paragraph 6 and 7, be the date as of which the Shares so
purchase shall be deemed to have been issued. Optionee shall not have the right
or status as a holder of the Shares to which such exercise relates prior to
receipt by the Company of such payment, notice and documentation.

         6.       Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, in
no event may the Option be exercisable if the Company shall, at any time and in
its sole discretion, determine that (i) the listing, registration or
qualification of any shares otherwise deliverable upon such exercise, upon any
securities exchange or under any state or federal law, or (ii) the consent or
approval of any regulatory body or the satisfaction of withholding tax or other
withholding liabilities is necessary or desirable in connection with such
exercise. In such event, such exercise shall be held in abeyance and shall not
be effective unless and until such withholding, listing, registration,
qualification or approval shall have been affected or obtained free of any
conditions not acceptable to the Company in its sole discretion, notwithstanding
any termination of any option or any portion of any option during the period
when exercisability has been suspended.

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         7.       The Board or, if so designated, the Committee, may require as
a condition to the right to exercise the Option hereunder that the Company
receive from Optionee representations, warranties and agreements, at the time of
any such exercise, to the effect that the Shares are being purchased for
investment only and without any present intention to sell or otherwise
distribute such Shares and that the Shares will not be disposed of in
transactions which, in the opinion of counsel to the Company, would violate the
registration provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as then amended, and the
rules and regulations thereunder. The certificate issued to evidence such Shares
shall bear appropriate legends summarizing such restrictions on the disposition
thereof.

         8.       (a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary that may be
contained in this Agreement, without the prior written consent of the Company,
the person or entity exercising the Option shall not sell, transfer, pledge,
hypothecate or otherwise dispose of any Shares acquired upon the exercise of the
Option or any interest therein without first offering to the Company in writing
the right to purchase such Shares at a price per share equal to the average of
the high and low sale price of such Shares as quoted on the NASDAQ National
Market System on the trading day immediately preceding the day of such offer
(the "Offer Price"). The Company shall have no more than two (2) trading days to
accept or reject such offer. In the event the Company agrees to purchase such
Shares, the certificate or certificates evidencing such Shares shall forthwith
be delivered to the Company against full payment of an amount of money in the
form of cash or check equal to the product of (x) the number of Shares that are
the subject of such offer and (y) the Offer Price.

                  (b) The certificate or certificates delivered which evidence
Shares acquired upon any exercise of the Option as provided in Paragraph 5 shall
bear, in addition to any restrictive legend required by Paragraph 7, a legend
summarizing the restrictions set forth in subparagraph (a) of this Paragraph 8.

                  (c) The Committee shall have the power in its discretion to
lessen or eliminate the period of time during which the transfer of the Shares
is restricted under subparagraph 8(a) and/or to eliminate or modify in the
Optionee's favor the Company's right to purchase the Shares pursuant to this
Paragraph 8, whether before or after the Option is exercised hereunder.

         9.       This Agreement shall be construed and enforced in accordance
with the laws of the State of Delaware. Subject to subparagraphs 1 (c), 8(a) and
8(c), this Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the
parties hereto and their respective heirs, personal representative, successors
or assigns, as the case may be.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have witnessed this Agreement to be
duly executed and delivered as of the date first above written.

                                          DATASCOPE CORP.

                                          By:
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Optionee                                      Name:
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