Iranian knowledge-based company produces brain stimulant test gels

A knowledge-based company in Iran has managed to partially meet the domestic market’s needs for electrode paste and gels used in electroencephalogram (EEG) tests.

Iran’s Mehr news agency, quoted Vice President’s Office for Science, Technology and Knowledge-based Economy, as saying that Saeed Bahraini established the company in 2001 to design and manufacture diagnostic devices with applications in the fields of neurology, psychiatry, neuroscience and physical medicine and rehabilitation.

Bahraini, who is also the CEO of the knowledge-based company added fifteen years later, the company started research for production of different types of medical gels needed to perform EEG and other tests.

He explained, “The EEG Gel is a conductive gel with a specific viscosity used to record bioelectrical signals from the patient’s skin.”
He added, “This gel is usually used in recording electroencephalography (EEG) signals using Easy Cap.”

The CEO of the Iranian knowledge-based company referred to the Teson produced by the firm, saying the Teson electrode paste is used to stick permanent electrodes to the patient’s skin and improves the quality of the signals received from the patient by reducing the impedance between the skin and the electrode.

Bahraini said the company meets about 20 percent of the Iranian market’s needs, and added it can have a bigger share of the domestic market in case the paths for smuggling foreign products are sealed.