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Revenue Recognition (Details) (USD $)	3 Months Ended		6 Months Ended				3 Months Ended	6 Months Ended
	Jun. 30, 2013	Jun. 30, 2012	Jun. 30, 2013	Jun. 30, 2012	Dec. 31, 2012	Jun. 30, 2013 Olympus and Olympus-Cytori [Member]	Sep. 30, 2012 BARDA Contract [Member]	Jun. 30, 2013 BARDA Contract [Member]	Jun. 30, 2013 Revenue Recognized [Member] Customer	Jun. 30, 2012 Revenue Recognized [Member] Customer	Jun. 30, 2013 Credit Concentration Risk [Member] Customer	Jun. 30, 2012 Credit Concentration Risk [Member] Customer	Jun. 30, 2013 North America [Member]	Jun. 30, 2012 North America [Member]	Jun. 30, 2013 Japan [Member]	Jun. 30, 2012 Japan [Member]	Jun. 30, 2013 Europe [Member]	Jun. 30, 2012 Europe [Member]	Jun. 30, 2013 Other countries [Member]	Jun. 30, 2012 Other countries [Member]
Revenue Recognition [Abstract]
Period of services provided subsequent to date of sale			1 year
Revenues from External Customers and Long-Lived Assets [Line Items]
Number of customers									2	1	2	3
Product revenues	$ 1,408,000	$ 1,947,000	$ 2,800,000	$ 3,427,000									$ 583,000	$ 487,000	$ 1,487,000	$ 1,749,000	$ 625,000	$ 619,000	$ 105,000	$ 572,000
Concentration risk percentage (in hundredths)			100.00%	100.00%					38.00%	21.00%	58.00%	52.00%	21.00%	14.00%	53.00%	51.00%	22.00%	18.00%	4.00%	17.00%
Research and Development Arrangements [Line Items]
Deferred revenues, related party	0		0		638,000	28,311,000
Deferred revenue, related party, revenue recognized	638,000	2,413,000		2,413,000
Costs associated with the development device	4,150,000	3,224,000	7,869,000	6,060,000			106,000,000
Research and development arrangement with federal government, customer funding to offset costs incurred								$ 4,700,000
Research and development arrangement, initial base period								2 years

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For an entity that discloses a concentration risk in relation to quantitative amount, which serves as the "benchmark" (or denominator) in the equation, this concept represents the concentration percentage derived from the division.

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