RESEARCH NEW GENERATION ULTRASOUND TECHNOLOGIES IN BLOOD FLOW MONITORING

New technologies in clinical ultrasound.

Ultrasound (US) is the imaging modality of choice for a wide variety of clinical indications because of its excellent image quality combined with lack of ionizing radiation, relative portability, and low cost. Numerous advances in US technology over the past fewdecades, such as color and power Doppler, speckle reduction, compound imaging, harmonic imaging, and 3-D imaging have become the standa...

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES Continuous Intravascular Blood Gas Monitoring

N AVERAGE adult at rest consumes approximately A 100 million trillion molecules of oxygen per second; with virtually no capacity for oxygen storage, cessation of oxygen delivery quickly results in irreversible cellular damage. The human cardiopulmonary system functions remarkably well in healthy individuals, maintaining the mitochondrial oxygen tension (greater than 1 mmHg) required for aerobic...

Monitoring Research Collaborations Using Semantic Web Technologies

In the current research environment, funding agencies are increasingly required to demonstrate that the projects they fund represent value for money. When funds are disbursed in a speculative manner, in order to stimulate interdisciplinary collaboration, the determination of value for money relies on evidence that shows the generation of new collaborations. This paper summarises the work we car...

OneTouch Blood Glucose Monitoring Systems – Impact of New Technologies on the Efficacy of Self-monitoring Blood Glucose

New genetic technologies in alcohol research.

Recently developed approaches to creating genetically engineered animals have expanded researchers' repertoire of methods to investigate the roles of individual genes in the development of certain behaviors and diseases, including alcoholism. For example, knockout mice, in which single mouse genes have been inactivated, have allowed scientists to assess the roles of those genes in mediating som...