Biomation Management and Medical Instrumentation

Instrumentation in Medical Systems

The demand for clinical use of accelerated heavy chargedparticle (proton and light-ion) beams for cancer treatment is now burgeoning worldwide. Clinical trials are underway at more than a dozen accelerators. Several hospital-based accelerator facilities dedicated to radiation treatment of human cancer have been constructed, and their number is growing. Many instruments in medical systems have b...

Review of Literature of Pc Based Medical Instrumentation 2.1 Pc Based Medical Instrumentation and Latest

Basic Concepts of Medical Instrumentation

The invention, prototype design, product development, clinical testing, regulatory approval, manufacturing, marketing, and sale of a new medical instrument add up to a complex, expensive, and lengthy process. Very few new ideas survive the practical requirements, human barriers, and inevitable setbacks of this arduous process. Usually there is one person who is the ‘‘champion’’ of a truly new m...

Data logging technology in ambulatory medical instrumentation.

This paper reviews the advancements made in ambulatory data logging used in the study of human subjects since the inception of the analogue tape based data logger in the 1960s. Research into the area of ambulatory monitoring has been rejuvenated due to the development of novel storage technologies during the 1990s. Data logging systems that were previously impractical due to lack of processing ...

Overview of Nuclear Medical Imaging Instrumentation and Techniques*

Nuclear medical imaging is a well established method for obtaining information on the status of certain organs within the human body or in animals. This paper presents an overview of two commonly used methods, namely SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography) and PET (positron emission tomography), as well as the emerging method of intraoperative probes with imaging capability. The disc...