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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Magnetic brain stimulator may be an answer to clinical depression
If you ever visit a psychiatrist’s clinic, don’t mistake that helmet-shaped device as something other than its having a good and considerable relation to your patient. Weird though it may look, with all those crawling electrodes in it, the newly … Continue reading
The 560D HD camera for better Diagnostics during Surgery
A powerful addition to the rapidly growing HD endoscopic and arthroscopic camera market is the new 3-CCD HD camera. Unveiled by Smith & Nephew’s Endoscopy Division, the 560 Series HD Camera has been designed to provide high-definition resolution in the … Continue reading
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Tagged 560 D camera, Diagnostics, High Definition, Surgical Camera, Technology
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Hitachi develops a portable walkman-style brain scanner
Hmm…a portable brain scanner from Hitachi! Looks like the guys at the company have taken a break from manufacturing LCDs and Plasmas. Anyway, they have developed a prototype lightweight, portable brain scanner that allows users to keep tabs on their … Continue reading
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Tagged Activities, brain, Education, Hitachi, LCDs, Marketing, Mind gaming, Psychology, Technology
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Miniaturized ultrasound machine radically helps doctors
Ultrasound in not only confined to hospitals with bulky equipments and reliable power supplies. Now, to perform an ultrasound test a new system has been emerged that is a machine miniaturized to the size of a laptop computer. This compact … Continue reading
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Tagged Laptop Sized, Pregnancy, Technology, Ultrasound Machine
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Biomedical engineers discover a 3-D Ultrasound scanner for the brain
A 3-D ultrasound scanner for use in minimally invasive brain surgeries has been discovered by a team of biomedical engineers at Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering. This brain-scanner can be used for bedside patient monitoring in the absence of CT … Continue reading
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Tagged 3d, biomedical, brain, duke, engineers, scanner, Technology, ultrasound
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LifeShirt to diagnose mental illness
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) are nowadays using a new device to study the behavior of patients who are suffering with mental illnesses, such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. This behavioral-pattern monitoring device includes computerized vest … Continue reading
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Tagged Bipolar, LifeShirt, Schizophrenia, Technology, UCSD
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Highly beneficial auditory nerve implant for the hearing impaired in the offing
Researchers at the University of Michigan were preparing a new version of cochlear implant earlier this year. But now it seems like they are looking at a fresh auditory nerve implant , nicknamed as “a superior alternative” to the (now) … Continue reading
Implantable blood sensors for soldiers in works
Fixing a micro device into human body to monitor how tired you are might sound awkward to you, but, C3B researchers are working tenaciously to make it a reality. The researchers are developing an implantable biosensor for soldier to monitor … Continue reading
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Tagged Biosensor, C3B, Department of Defense, Technology
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Intelligent prosthetic unveiled: PROPRIO foot can think for itself!
After I saw an amputee drag himself up Mt.Everest with his prosthetic leg, I knew that the world of prosthesis still has a long ways to go. Although, many would argue that it has come a long ways already. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Artificial intelligence, microprocessors, Ossur, Prorio foot, Prosthetic limbs, Technology
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Miniature robot to swim in your veins
We earlier reported that Japanese researchers have developed a prototype model of the micro medical robot that can reside and travel inside a human body to eliminate disease especially cancer. However, now, Dr. Nir Schwalb and Oded Salomon of the … Continue reading