Re: Fwd: Fw: novel portable echo machine
From: Jaye Wingstrom (fizzed82@yahoo.com)
Tue Nov 15 09:35:58 2005
Hi.
Somehow I am still on some group email list for
ultrasound, and would like to be removed from
EVERYONE'S list as soon as possible.
Thank you
--
Jaye Wingstrom
fizzed82@yahoo.com
--- Terry DuBose <terrydubose@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Yikes! I read one of the comments in the
> discussion at the bottom of the article.
>
> "I've thought they needed a personal ultrasound/echo
> type device for while now and this is perfect. How
> long until it is marketed towards women so they can
> do an ultrasound of their breast to check for lumps
> and then email the file to their doc/radiologist for
> interpretation? "
>
> Once again, these folks believe sonography is
> simple. The ability to recognize a breast lesion in
> order to take make an image to send to anyone is not
> simple and requires a lot of skill and knowledge.
>
> Terry
>
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> bhamilt
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> Monday, November 7, 2005
>
> The Ubiquitous Echo
>
> Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial
> Science and Technology (AIST) is reporting that a
> novel portable echo machine, dubbed Ubiquitous Echo,
> was developed through joint research between AIST
> and the Hiroshima Institute of Technology. The
> device is essentially an echo probe that connects to
> a laptop, so there is no echo machine per se:
> The unit can be used in health care or beauty
> facilities, or even in the home, to visualize the
> key components of the body (muscles, bones,
> subcutaneous fat) and give fat and muscle
> measurements. It is hoped that this technology will
> help to prevent elderly people from being confined
> to their beds.
> Users connect Ubiquitous Echo to their personal
> computers and use the included software to collect
> detailed information about specific parts of the
> body. The ultrasonic echography equipment
> traditionally used in medical examinations is
> prohibitively expensive and too large to be used by
> health care and beauty facilities or in the home.
> This new machine is small, lightweight, and
> inexpensive and can even be put into a bag along
> with a laptop computer and carried around.
>
> Watch out, echo manufacturers! The time is running
> short before we have fully functional miniaturized
> echo probes (with color Doppler, CW/PW, M-mode, etc,
> etc)--no machine is required, thank you very much.
> Great news, indeed.
>
> The press release at AIST...
>
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