Medical Electronics Story

Medical Retina Feature Story

APRIL 2010 I RETINA TODAY I 59 I ntravitreal injection has become one of the most commonly performed vitreoretinal procedures, but there is little agreement in the retina community regarding what type of topical anesthetic is most effective for it. We performed a study to assess the effectiveness of gel vs liquid topical anesthetics for this application.1 This prospective, single-center study i...

Medical Electronics and Communications Abstracts

Story Telling Aspects in Medical Applications

Although the use of images as well as movies has proven very valuable for presentation purposes in volume visualization, these methods still lack a certain feature, that has become state-of-the-art in other visualization areas, namely interactivity. Giving the consumers of a presentation more interactive freedom would allow them to further investigate the presented visualizations as well as to ...

Versatility of Silicone Chemistry for Electronics in Medical Device Applications

" Conductive Adhesives – the High Tech Solution in Medical Electronics

Conductive inks and adhesives were used in the earliest electronics. Thomas Edison was the first to propose conductive adhesives as a way to replace wires all the way back in 1904. Today, adhesives are used with conventional etched copper circuit boards and also with other Polymer Thick Film (PTF) materials to produce electronic products that can be built very efficiently. Safe, reliable and lo...