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Briefs: AR/AI
Immersive Mixed Reality: Moving Automation Technologies to the Cloud
See how immersive mixed reality has helped medtech manufacturers maintain factory output despite the challenges posed by COVID-19.
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Global Innovations: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Deep-Learned E-Skin Decodes Complex Human Motion
A single-strained electronic skin sensor, powered by deep learning, can capture human motion from a distance.
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Briefs: Software
Virtual Reality Blood Flow Simulation to Improve Cardiovascular Interventions
3D interface provides cellular-level, full-body blood flow modeling to study and treat cardiovascular disease.
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R&D: AR/AI
VR Helps Amputees ‘Feel’ Prosthetic Limbs
Scientists have shown that amputees can actually be convinced that the prosthetic hand belongs to their own body. They do this by going beyond the “seeing is believing” idiom based on...
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R&D: Wearables
Early Detection of Neuro Diseases
A new wireless eye-tracking technology is based on electro-oculography (EOG), an ophthalmology technique used to examine eyes and record eye movement. The technology, which is integrated into a standard pair of...
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Features: Medical
Show Preview Medinnovation Boston 2018
THE WESTIN WALTHAM BOSTON • JUNE 25, 2018www.medinnovationevent.com Medical devices are an innovative, essential, and rapidly evolving component of healthcare technology and delivery. This unique...
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Features: Design
The Digital Future of Medical Device Development
Digital design tools — computer modeling and realistic simulation — have emerged as key contributors to success in medical device product design and manufacturing, and increasingly in the...
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Global Innovations: Software
Augmented Reality Helps Surgeons See Through Tissue to Reconnect Blood Vessels
Imperial College LondonLondon, UKwww.imperial.ac.uk In a series of procedures carried out by a team at Imperial College London at St Mary’s Hospital, researchers...
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R&D: Medical
Soft Sensor Could Bring New Tactile Tech
A new type of soft and stretchable sensor could find uses in applications ranging from athletics and health monitoring to prosthetics and virtual reality. The technology, called iSoft, is capable of...
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Features: Regulations/Standards
Implementing IEC 62304 for Safe and Effective Medical Device Software, PART 2
The reliability of the embedded software used in medical devices and the risk associated with it has become a vital concern. IEC 62304, “Medical device software...
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Features: Medical
3D Printing: Overcoming Anatomical Model Challenges
For years, anatomical models have played important roles in hospitals and healthcare facilities. From educational aids to practice dummies, these models serve many functions for patients,...
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Features: AR/AI
Nanotechnology Developments Drive the Future of BIOPHOTONICS
The global biophotonics market is estimated to reach $91.31 billion by 2024, according to a report by Grand View Research, San Francisco, CA. The developments in optical technologies,...
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Global Innovations: Medical
Virtual Reality in Medicine: New Opportunities for Diagnostics and Surgical Planning
University of Basel, Basel, Switzerlandwww.unibas.ch Before an operation, surgeons have to obtain the most precise image possible of the anatomical structures...
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Features: IoMT
The Next Industrial Revolution and What It Could Mean for Medical Device Manufacturing
The next industrial revolution is on its way. It is bringing innovative technologies that are available and proven and placing them in the modern...
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Briefs: Imaging
Motion Capture Technology Brings a New Age of Mobility to Veteran Amputees
For veterans who have lost a limb, a prosthesis is a lifeline. An artificial device not only provides mobility and enables routine activity, it can be life giving —...
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R&D: Medical
Foot Device Controls Video Game Action
A group of graduate students from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, devised a sandal-like controller that allows a video game player to control the on-screen action with his feet. The team — dubbed GEAR, for Game Enhancing Augmented Reality — created the device for amputees or those with...
Briefs: Medical
Interface Improves Artificial Limb Control
Being able to manipulate virtual fingers, or even fingers attached to a functioning prosthetic device, is not the same as feeling like the device is part of your own body. Researchers at Arizona State...
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Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping
How Augmented Reality Technology and Lessons Learned from Automotive Manufacturing Can Improve Medical Manufacturing
At a time when the healthcare industry is undergoing profound foundational shifts and the regulatory and legislative...
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Mission Accomplished: Imaging
Large-Scale Hybrid Reality Environment Aids Researchers
When you think of the word cave, you might think of a dark, hidden place, right? Not anymore. The CAVE™ and CAVE2™, developed by the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at...
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Features: Electronics & Computers
Winning Competitive Advantages with a Device Design and Manufacturing Partner
Facing multiple challenges including cost pressure, global competition, and evolving market de mands, medical device companies may consider engaging with a design and...
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Features: Medical
For FDA Approval, It All Boils Down to the Validation
We’ve all purchased new technologies, trinkets, and toys that were so counterintuitive that it was surprising how the product ever made it to market. While a poor gadget may present little...
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Features: Design
Managing Mechatronic Challenges in Medical Electronic Product Development
Most medical electronic systems now depend on combinations of hardware and software, forming elaborate mechatronic systems that both monitor and regulate patient health...
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Applications: Medical
Using Finite Element Analysis to Improve Intraocular Lenses
Medical device design presents specific challenges for finite element analysis (FEA) engineers, who are tasked with simulating the mechanical behavior of medical devices or their...
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Briefs: Medical
Neuroprosthetics and Solutions for Restoring Sensorimotor Functions
Advances in body armor and life-saving technology have increased survival rates of severely injured military personnel. Unfortunately, the survivors of improvised explosive...
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INSIDER: Design

MD&M Midwest Keynote: Advancing Electrophysiology: The Science and...

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INSIDER: Medical

MD&M Midwest Keynote: Let’s Break a Leg: Improving 3D Printed Prosthetics

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INSIDER: Medical

Smart Device Speeds Wound Healing with Personalized Treatment

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INSIDER: Materials

New Material Extends Life of Orthopedic Implants

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Podcasts: Medical

How 3D Printing Is Transforming Medtech

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From the Editor: Medical

Medical Devices Are Booming — But Can the Supply Chain Keep Up?

Ask the Expert

Dan Sanchez on How to Improve Extruded Components
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Improving extruded components requires careful attention to a number of factors, including dimensional tolerance, material selection, and processing. Trelleborg’s Dan Sanchez provides detailed insights into each of these considerations to help you advance your device innovations while reducing costs and speeding time to market.

Webcasts

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Upcoming Webinars: Connectivity

Understanding Testing and Compliance Requirements for Wireless...

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On-Demand Webinars: Materials

Advancements in Biocompatible Liquid Crystal Polymer Substrates for Next-Gen...

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Podcasts: Materials

How 3D Printing Is Transforming Medtech

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Podcasts: Medical

Addressing Material Changes and Safety in Medical Devices

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On-Demand Webinars: AR/AI

Medical & Healthcare Robotics Summit

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On-Demand Webinars: Medical

From Concept to Scale-Up: Real-World Insights into Biomedical Textile...

Inside Story

Inside Story: Trends in Packaging and Sterilization
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Eurofins Medical Device Testing (MDT) provides a full scope of testing services. In this interview, Eurofins’ experts, Sunny Modi, PhD, Director of Package Testing; and Elizabeth Sydnor, Director of Microbiology; answer common questions on medical device packaging and sterilization.

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