A mobile medical device for point-of-care applications

Author

Yang, Seung-wook ; Yoon, Hee-chul ; Cho, Jeong ; Kye, Sang-Bum ; Song, Tai-Kyong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Sogang Univ., Seoul

fYear

2008

fDate

2-5 Nov. 2008

Firstpage

1346

Lastpage

1349

Abstract

Portability and networking ability of medical diagnosis devices are key to point-of-care (POC) and patient-oriented services. We have recently developed a prototype of full custom small ultrasound scanner by implementing an efficient beamforming algorithm, post-processing optimization and low power design technique in FPGA. It can provide B-mode and color flow images using 32 real active channels or 64 effective channels on receive. An embedded CPU and Linux were used for the OS of this device. The POC system also has a Bluetooth module to provide various bio signals which are obtained wirelessly from various biomedical sensors.

Keywords

Bluetooth; biomedical communication; biomedical equipment; biomedical ultrasonics; medical signal processing; mobile computing; patient diagnosis; B-mode images; Bluetooth module; FPGA; beamforming algorithm; biomedical sensors; color flow images; low power design; mobile medical device; networking ability; patient-oriented services; point-of-care applications; portability; post-processing optimization; small ultrasound scanner; Algorithm design and analysis; Array signal processing; Biomedical imaging; Design optimization; Field programmable gate arrays; Linux; Medical diagnosis; Medical diagnostic imaging; Prototypes; Ultrasonic imaging; Bluetooth; Hand-held device; Point-of-care; Ultrasound scanner;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultrasonics Symposium, 2008. IUS 2008. IEEE

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2428-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2480-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ULTSYM.2008.0326

Filename

4803703