Title :
Personal ultrasonograph for visual health promotion
Author :
Fukuda, Osamu ; Sato, Hironori
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Adv. Industrial Sci. & Technol., Tsukuba, Japan
Abstract :
This paper discusses a novel ultrasonograph for visual health promotion for personal use. We have developed an innovative, small, light-weight, low-price, ultrasonograph: the Eco-U-Sound. The operator can check how healthy his/her body is at anytime, anywhere like a doctor. Also, we have developed a cross-sectional image viewer: C-SIV to show the complete cross-sectional image of human extremities. The operator can check the volume balance of muscle, fat, bone areas clearly. Visual feedback provides powerful direction on the operator´s health. We show the developed system based on the patents (#333-03548, #333-03549, #333-03446) and explain the expected market with a business model.
Keywords :
biomedical ultrasonics; display devices; feedback; C-SIV cross-sectional image viewer; Eco-U-Sound; personal ultrasonograph; visual feedback; visual health promotion; Bones; Cancer; Computer hacking; Extremities; Graphical user interfaces; Humans; Muscles; Power system modeling; Prototypes; Ultrasonic imaging;
Conference_Titel :
Robotics and Automation, 2004. TExCRA '04. First IEEE Technical Exhibition Based Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8564-0
DOI :
10.1109/TEXCRA.2004.1425024