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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Single Photon Camera Offers High Speed and High Resolution
Photon counting detectors with high spatiotemporal resolution are key tools of imaging techniques where picosecond timing and micrometer position imaging are required, such as time...
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Briefs: Medical
‘Near-Zero-Power’ Temperature Sensor Could Make Wearables Less Power-Hungry
Electrical engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a temperature sensor that runs on only 113 picowatts of power — 628 times lower...
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Features: Medical
Integration Drives the Future of Portable Healthcare Devices
The global home healthcare services industry is already worth billions of U.S. dollars and, with a growing and aging population, this is expected to continue to increase. The...
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Features: Medical
High-Quantum Efficiency Photocathodes for Medical Diagnostics
Detection of a single photon is a requirement for many research and medical applications, such as fluorescence imaging, single molecule imaging, and luminescence applications. The...
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Features: Medical
9 Tough Questions to Ask About Your Dispense Valves
Dispensing plays an important role in medical device manufacturing. There are many stringent requirements for accuracy, reliability, repeatability, dispensing speed, and throughput. In...
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Mission Accomplished: Medical
Vision Trainer Teaches Focusing Techniques at Home
Inventions often find unintended uses. The first mechanical clocks in Europe were intended to track the motions of celestial bodies and found their original market among monks who kept a strict...
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Features: Medical
Piezo Mechanisms Improve Refractive Eye Surgery
Piezo motion-based precision mechanisms provide a number of features that are highly sought after in medical applications, such as lubricant-free design and sterile, ceramic actuation. Ceramics...
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Features: Medical
Top Challenges for Today's Medical Device Designers: Winning the Space Race
The phrase, "May you live in interesting times" certainly applies to today's medical device design engineers, as they face unprecedented opportunities and challenges...
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Briefs: Medical
Rehabilitation of Visual and Perceptual Dysfunction after Severe Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
The aim of this work is to conduct preliminary evaluations of new rehabilitation strategies and new functional assessment methods for homonymous hemianopia (HH) and spatial neglect (SN), two disabling visual and cognitive perception conditions that...
Briefs: Medical
On-Command Force and Torque Impeding Devices (OC-FTID) Using ERF
Various machines have been developed to address the need for countermeasures of bone and muscle deterioration when humans operate over extended time in space. Even though these...
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Applications: Medical
Eye on the Medical Device Industry: Technology Is Key to Compliance
The medical device industry is a highly competitive arena, and earning market recognition depends on the ability to keep innovating. To remain competitive, medical device...
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Briefs: Motion Control
High-Accuracy Closed Loop Force Feedback
Hand-driven press assemblies, which require a specific amount of force applied for a given amount of time, present challenges when attempting to accurately measure or replicate results in production or...
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Rotary Sensing Technologies for Medical and Robotic Shaft Angle Sensing Applications
Today’s sensor technologies for robotic and medical applications include many devices that have evolved from industrial applications. Because of this general...
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Briefs: Medical
EyeBrain Tracker for Early Diagnosis and Monitoring of Neurological Disease
The EyeBrain Tracker (EBT) is an eyetracking medical device, which uses algorithms to accurately track eye movements for the diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease and...
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Briefs: Medical
Wireless Foot Switch Design Considerations
Wireless foot switches for the control of medical devices are gaining acceptance and growing in popularity — prompting OEMs to design medical equipment for use with a wireless foot switch or to...
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Features: Medical
OS Requirements for Medical Devices Explained
It doesn’t take much of a crystal ball to foresee that the way we deliver health care in the United States is going to be vastly different in the coming years. What is causing this change is...
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Mission Accomplished: Medical
Web-Based Programs Assess Cognitive Fitness
Astronauts, pilots, air traffic controllers, truck drivers, shift workers, and mountain climbers have something in common: All are at risk for impaired cognitive abilities due to stress or sleep...
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition

Tiny Sensor Could Transform Head Injury Detection

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News: Robotics, Automation & Control

Quantum Surgical Acquires NeuWave Medical, Inc.

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Briefs: Materials

Shrinking Materials Hold Big Potential for Smart Devices

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Podcasts: Medical

The Hidden Nervous System of Surgical Robotics: Power, Data & Sensing...

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Briefs: Medical

Specialty Thermoplastics for Medical Tubing Address PFAS, Processing, and...

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Podcasts: Medical

Surgical & Assistive Robotics: Redefining Human Capability

Ask the Expert

Ralph Bright on the Power of Power Cords
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Understanding power system components and how to connect them correctly is critical to meeting regulatory requirements and designing successful electrical products for worldwide markets. Interpower’s Ralph Bright defines these requirements and explains how to know which cord to select for your application.

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Podcasts: Design

The Hidden Nervous System of Surgical Robotics: Power, Data & Sensing Behind...

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Podcasts: Medical

Surgical & Assistive Robotics: Redefining Human Capability

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Podcasts: Medical

How Wearables Are Enhancing Smart Drug Delivery

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Podcasts: Design

Developing Sustainable Drug-Delivery Devices

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Podcasts: Medical

Smarter Pathways for Precision Drug Delivery in Cancer Care

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On-Demand Webinars: Manufacturing & Prototyping

Understanding Testing and Compliance Requirements for Wireless Medical Devices

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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