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Now Mobile can be used in Medical Imaging process unit |
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Written by Team Josh
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
 US-based University of California has developed a device which could one day be used to make medical imaging accessible to billions of people around the world.
According to the World Health Organisation, some three-quarters of the world’s population has no access to ultrasounds, X-rays, magnetic resonance images (MRIs), and other medical imaging technology used for a wide range of applications, from detecting tumours to confirming infections to monitoring foetuses.
“Treatment of an estimated 20 per cent of diseases would benefit from medical imaging, yet this advancement has been out of reach for millions of people because the equipment is too costly to maintain,” said Boris Rubinsky, UCB professor of bioengineering and mechanical engineering, who led the team of researchers.
Rubinsky and his team came up with the novel idea of physically separating different Medical imaging systems so that the most complicated element – the processing software used to reconstruct the raw data into a meaningful image – can reside at an off-site, central location.
This central location would be used by multiple remote sites, where simpler machines collect the raw data from the patients.
Now the cellphone hooked up to the data acquisition device, would transmit the raw data to the central server, where the information would be used to create an image. The server would then relay the image back to the cell phone, where it can be viewed on the cell phone’s screen.
“This design is cost-effective, simple, and does away with the need for highly-trained personnel,” said co-researcher Antoni Ivorra.
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