Abstract :
By taking technologies already in use, experimenters hope to help the arthritic, the nearsighted, and those with internal disorders. And a novel bone technique has just obtained premarket approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Rockville, Md. Optical coherence tomography, originally developed to image eye tissues and artery-clogging plaques, is now being enhanced for the early detection of joint disease. Microwave heating is being developed to correct misshapen corneas found in visual disorders like myopia. In a magnetic resonance imager, a superconducting probe is shown to provide clearer images than a probe at room temperature. And the FDA action applies to a portable, noninvasive unit that uses an electromagnetic field to stimulate bone growth
Keywords :
biomedical MRI; biomedical electronics; bone; electromagnetic fields; eye; light coherence; microwave heating; optical tomography; technological forecasting; artery-clogging plaques imaging; bone growth stimulation; bone technique; electromagnetic field; eye tissues imaging; internal disorders; joint disease early detection; magnetic resonance imager; medical electronics; microwave heating; misshapen corneas correction; myopia; optical coherence tomography; portable noninvasive unit; superconducting probe; technology analysis; technology forecast; visual disorders; Biomedical imaging; Biomedical optical imaging; Bones; Drugs; Food technology; Joints; Pharmaceutical technology; Probes; Technology forecasting; Tomography;
