A NEW BINAURAL STETHOSCOPE.

Western Electric Introduce New Electrical Stethoscope

A New Digital Stethoscope with Environmental Noise Cancellation

A medical instrument for acquisition and analysis of phono-cardiac signals is described in the paper. The proposed system is based on an electronic stethoscope with enhanced performances in environmental noise reduction, achieved by means of two microphones whose signals are combined by an adaptive algorithm. A software tool able to reproduce, visualize and analyze cardiac sounds completes the ...

A New Stethoscope Design with Unique Characteristics and Development in Medical Device

As regards the significant role of stethoscopes in the diagnosis of congenital and adventitious heart diseases and prevention of irreparable complications of these diseases, the quality of hearing sound of these stethoscopes by a physician has a significant impact on the disease diagnosis. This device plays an important role in the early diagnosis of congenital heart and respiratory diseases an...

Stethoscope Acoustics

IT is an anachronism that the stethoscope, introduced in 1819, remains an indispensable medical tool today although no standards have ever been set for its acoustical performance.' Neither has a standard test been established for evaluating the acoustics of the intact instrument. Furthermore, there is no information on the intimate acoustical interaction of the stethoscope with the doctors' ear...

The dermatologist’s stethoscope—traditional and new applications of dermoscopy

Dermoscopy is a non-invasive tool that is largely recognized and used in the diagnosis of pigmented and non-pigmented skin tumors. A steadily increasing number of publications on alternative applications of dermoscopy suggest, however, that dermoscopy aids also the recognition of skin manifestations in general dermatology. The increasing use of dermoscopy in general dermatology can be partially...