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Mission Accomplished: Medical
Ear infections are so common that three out of four children have at least one by the time they reach age three, says the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, part of the...
Global Innovations: Electronics & Computers
Bionic Vision Australia http://www.bionicvision.org.au
The main cause of inherited blindness is retinitis pigmentosa, which affects 1.5 million people worldwide and is characterized by the progressive loss of vision. To combat...
Applications: Photonics/Optics
Global population aging is unprecedented: the global population of children under age five is expected to fall by 49 million by midcentury, while the number of people over...
Briefs: Imaging
While clear imaging is extremely important in diagnosing breast cancer from mammograms, there is also concern about exposing the patient to too much radiation from repeated X-rays....
INSIDER: Imaging
iPad Helps Researchers Visualize Cardiac Images
A team of researchers from Duke University, Durham, NC, speaking at the ANESTHESIOLOGY 2012 annual meeting revealed that they have created an advanced tool to permit trainees in transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) to use an Apple iPad to obtain real-time instruction in viewing and interpreting 3D...
Products: Medical
Nameplates for Industry (New Bedford, MA) has introduced custom fabricated front panel graphic overlays for high-end medical devices and laboratory instruments or equipment. The graphic overlays feature...
Global Innovations: Photonics/Optics
Researchers at Aalto Uni versity in Finland have de veloped the world’s first device designed to map the human brain that combines whole-head magnetoencephalo graphy (MEG) and...
INSIDER: Medical
New Optical Mammography Technology
Medical Design Briefs News Online is kicking off Breast Cancer Awareness Month with new optical imaging technology developed at Tufts University School of Engineering, Medford, MA, that may provide doctors with new ways of both identifying breast cancer and monitoring individual patients' response to initial...
Features: Medical
Authors, filmmakers, and television programs have given us visions of robots serving humanity for most of the past 100 years. Some of the most iconic fictional ones include the...
Briefs: Medical
A readily portable miniature microscope weighing less than 2 grams and tiny enough to balance on your fingertip has been developed. The scope is designed to see fluorescent markers,...
Features: Imaging
For decades now, the medical industry has been automating to improve throughput, yield, and performance of medical devices. Slide scanning, for example, has been...
Features: Medical
Most major diseases are somehow linked to metabolic alterations. But being able to see the changes as they occur and to see if a treatment is working in ‘real...
Briefs: Imaging
Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in humans, with annual rates continuing to climb from their current estimate of just over three million new cases each year. Although all skin...
Mission Accomplished: Manufacturing & Prototyping
They can release as much energy as tens of billions of hydrogen bombs exploding at the same time. They send protons and electrons rocketing at near the speed of light. They heat gas in the Sun’s...
Global Innovations: Medical
Monash Vision Group, Victoria, Australia http://www.monash.edu.au/bioniceye/index.html
A brain implant developed at Monash Vision Group (MVG) — a collaboration between Monash University, Alfred Health, MiniFAB, and...
Briefs: Imaging
Hands-Free Transcranial Color Doppler Probe
Current transcranial color Doppler (TCD) transducer probes are bulky and difficult to move in tiny increments to search and optimize TCD signals. This invention provides miniature motions of a TCD transducer probe to optimize TCD signals.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A miniature atom-based magnetic sensor has passed an important research milestone by successfully measuring human brain activity. Experiments verified the sensor's potential for biomedical...
INSIDER: Medical
In Laparoscopic Surgery, Two (or More) Views Are Better Than One
Laparoscopic surgery is minimally invasive, but it is also visually constraining. In contrast to open surgery, surgeons who work on different tasks are all limited to the same view. In a small in vitro trial conducted at Brown University, surgeons with their own views performed faster...
INSIDER: Medical
New Technique Sees Deep Into Tissue
A technique developed by engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) enables researchers to focus light efficiently inside biological tissue. While the previous limit for how deep light could be focused was only about one millimeter, the Caltech team is now able to reach 2.5 millimeters. With...
Global Innovations: Photonics/Optics
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
www.shef.ac.uk
Injuries to the peripheral nervous system (PNS) are extremely common and affect 1 in 1000 individuals every year. Axon...
Features: Electronics & Computers
With the large number of user interface options available today, it is easy to forget why the membrane switch is an excellent choice for medical instrumentation. The basic advantages...
INSIDER: Medical
OCT Imaging Device Pinpoints Source of Chronic Ear Infections
Ear infections are the most common conditions that pediatricians treat. Studies have found that patients who suffer from chronic ear infections may have a film of bacteria or other microorganisms that builds up behind the eardrum; finding and monitoring these so-called biofilms are...
INSIDER: Medical
What's Ahead for Microsurgery?
Tabletop femtosecond lasers are already used in eye surgery, but researchers believe that they may be the future of microsurgery, offering benefits in applications inside the body, ranging from repairing the vocal cords to removing small tumors in the spinal cord or other tissues. Scientists at the University of Texas...
INSIDER: Medical
Correcting Aberrations in 3D Tissue Imaging
University of Illinois researchers have developed a technique to computationally correct for aberrations in optical tomography, which could provide faster, less expensive, higher-resolution tissue imaging to a broader population of users. Real-time, 3D microscopic tissue imaging may be useful for medical...
Products: Medical
The Specialty Photonics Division of OFS Fitel (Avon, CT) has introduced a new composite cable and composite cable assembly product line that offers custom configurations of multiple metal and optical fiber...
Products: Medical
Supertex (Sunnyvale, CA) has introduced two high-voltage, 32-channel analog switches: HV2801 and HV2901. Both ICs offer robust latch up protection and quiescent current of less than 10 μA, producing optical efficiency in...
Products: Medical
A range of ultra-high integrity hermetic seals and feedthroughs from Douglas Electrical Components (Randolph, NJ) provides solutions for passing signals into and out of sealed X-ray tube enclosures. These products are...
Products: Medical
Excelitas Technologies (Waltham, MA) has announced the addition of the XLM Plus LED Fiber Optic Light Module with Electronics, suitable for integration into endoscopy, surgical microscopy, and headlamp applications....
Products: Medical
Edmund Optics (Barrington, NJ) has expanded their TECHSPEC® Fluorescence Bandpass Filters, suitable for fluorescence imaging applications. The filters feature greater than 93% transmission and greater than OD6...
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Inside Story: Trends in Packaging and Sterilization
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.
