[Foreign medical technology at the "Optika-77" exhibition].

An analytical review of technical means for medico-technical investigations exposed by foreign firms at the exhibition "Optika-77" in Moscow suggests the following trends in the development of technical means, viz. providing the researcher with a processes, readily comprehensible information; improving the macro- and microanalysis of morphological structure of the tissues; designing and construction of new analyzers of substances; automation of functional investigations and scrutiny of substances.