Capt. Stamina
04-30-2008, 03:23 PM
Full article here (http://www.livescience.com/technology/080430-cell-phone-medical.html)
Basically they've come up with a scanner that attaches to a cell phone and transmitts the data to a central processor. So you could be at a traffic accident, in rural Africa, or anywhere in between (that has phone coverage) and get scanned.
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The portable scanner was hooked up to a cell phone with a USB cable and tested on a gel-filled container that simulated breast tissue afflicted with a tumor. Diseased tissue conducts electricity differently than healthy tissue does. The image that was sent back had the simulated tumor clearly visible onscreen.
Simple and flexible
These devices could work with any cell phone that can send and receive pictures or audio and video clips.
"The size of the data in the study was only six kilobytes, which is ridiculously small," explained researcher Yair Granot at Berkeley. "A one sentence, text-only e-mail message is bigger than that."
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Basically they've come up with a scanner that attaches to a cell phone and transmitts the data to a central processor. So you could be at a traffic accident, in rural Africa, or anywhere in between (that has phone coverage) and get scanned.
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The portable scanner was hooked up to a cell phone with a USB cable and tested on a gel-filled container that simulated breast tissue afflicted with a tumor. Diseased tissue conducts electricity differently than healthy tissue does. The image that was sent back had the simulated tumor clearly visible onscreen.
Simple and flexible
These devices could work with any cell phone that can send and receive pictures or audio and video clips.
"The size of the data in the study was only six kilobytes, which is ridiculously small," explained researcher Yair Granot at Berkeley. "A one sentence, text-only e-mail message is bigger than that."
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