Research new project: the sensor body turns into a mobile phone base station

According to foreign media reports, the United Kingdom electronics, communications and information technology Research Institute (ECIT) scientists are developing a new project aimed at the human body into a mobile phone base station.

This Research Centre for communications technology to the human body (body-centriccommunicationstechnology) science-based, you can let people put in possession of advanced sensor research and development.

These sensors to the human body into a super high bandwidth mobile Internet hub.

Scientists believe that this technology will have on individuals have a great social impact, it can improve the mobile game of recreational, health monitoring and real-time training sports teams.

Researchers are studying the sensors and human links, creating great mobile network.

Participation in this research scientist Simon · scawton (SimonCotton) accept the India believers Pao (TheHindu) interview, said: "body to body network feasibility may bring great benefits, including extensive use of portable sensor improve healthcare, not to the Medical Center may carry diseases of day-to-day monitoring and treatment of disease, and so on.

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Homemade ECG city accounted for only 10% of the required loan reform seeking breakthrough

ECG machines used to record cardiac activity of physiological signal of instruments, ECG machine operation is simple, affordable, and now has become the most popular in hospitals of one medical electronic apparatus, in the investment adviser to the pharmaceutical industry researcher Guo Li pointed out that with any new round of medical system reform for the future of China's market is expected to break the electrocardiograph monopoly situation abroad.

Investment advisor in the pharmaceutical industry researcher Guo where ritual that my main ECG machine manufacturers in Guangdong, Shandong, Shanghai, the production enterprises, specializing in the production of ECG machine enterprises not more than 30 companies, and most are small and medium-sized enterprises, their products are labour-intensive, low-technology products, the technology content is low, the innovation ability, and the lack of independent intellectual property rights.

Guo where ceremony that, while the new health reform continues to push for the development of China's ECG machine brings a unique development opportunity, new health reform 8500 billion invested in 165 billion in all targeted at the national 2.9 million rural hospitals and community health service agencies, and in this year also will spend $ 37 billion for the national 70% of the County Hospital, this extension is based on a number of good medical device product, ECG machine clearly is an important part.

CIC consultants research director Zhang Yan-Ling believes that with the incidence of cardiovascular diseases on the rise, ECG machine also is toward multi-channel, new recording, digital intelligent, network sharing and direction, our new ECG will use digital technology to constantly improve the efficiency and speed up the drawing remember this time will significantly improve the accuracy of clinical diagnosis.

CIC Advisory published the 2009-2012, China medical device industry investment analysis and forecast report pointed out that China's annual spend millions of dollars of foreign currency from abroad to import large quantities of medical equipment, domestic 90% of the ECG machine market is dominated by foreign brands, and new health reform for ECG market a unique development opportunity, the future of the market situation is expected to be broken.

China medical electronics development present situation and future trends (1)

Now China has entered an era of ageing of the population, as of the end, my 60 years of the older population has reached 1.6 billion, China medical device industry also after the liberation of the basic blank development up to now be able to produce 47 categories, more than 3000 varieties, 1.1 million different specifications of scale, its medical device production enterprises also exceeded 1.2 million.

Investment advisor in the pharmaceutical industry researcher Guo where ritual pointed out that older persons in need of long-term care and the health care needs strengthening, on the other hand also benefited from the improvement of people's living standard, and now the new hospital correction on a grand scale, in this new situation, the future of the development of the medical device industry, the direction to what?

First, the overall situation in China medical device industry

Chinese medical device industry is an emerging health industry, due to the development, its whether production or research and development is far from being able to meet the needs of the market, medical devices and drugs in China now the consumption ratio of almost 1: 10, but in the developed countries, this proportion had reached the 1: 1, this shows China's medical devices industry there is a big gap, China medical device products now account for only 60% of the total domestic, most products are dependent on imports.

Investment advisor in the pharmaceutical industry researcher Guo where the ceremony that, in respect of import and export of medical devices, in recent years, China's imports of medical equipment industry began to grow rapidly, 09 years 1-8 months, the total imports of medical equipment in Guangdong Province 2.6 million, compared with growth of 38%, a significant growth on the one hand, the main reason is the new health reform makes our country's primary health care sector needs continue to grow, a flow of epidemic also enables global demand for medical devices.

In our medical device industry's main city, Shenzhen is a leading faucet, Shenzhen currently has around 500 medical equipment company, annual exports of more than 13 billion, accounting for the entire canton export trade market, 2008, Shenzhen's medical devices industry output value reaching 120 million, with Shenzhen medical device products, not only the product covers various fields, and now also become China's high-tech medical products important production base.

Second, our State-of-the-art medical equipment breakdown industries

1. medical x-ray machine

X ray in essence is a wavelength short electromagnetic energy is very big, but its application in medicine is the medical x-ray machine, it is the sixth largest medical imaging devices on one of the diagnosis of diseases commonly used tools and economic growth in hospitals, medical x-ray machine is necessary for a medical unit of conventional equipment, October 1952 in China developed the first 200 Ma medical x-ray machine, as production technology continues to improve and increase of the production plant point, varieties and production has increased substantially, technical level has improved considerably.

Guo where Rite pointed out that, since the medical x-ray machine relative low end, and the new health reform national focus is also on the basis of rural markets, our 16000 around the County Hospital, new health reform on their huge demand and will allow the low-end medical x-ray machine in the next 3-5 years maintained a stable development.

Our medical x-ray equipment market CAGR is 10%, expected by 2012, China Medical x-ray machine will reach 9 billion market size, and the advance of new health reform will be China's medical x-ray machine development main driving force.

Guo where the ceremony also pointed out that, although our future medical x-ray machine has a bright future, but in a number of technical standards and foreign advanced products still have a long way to go, such as the low level of automation, machine variety incomplete, there is no scale production, software development is weak, and so on, so the good environment of our medical x-ray machines will also need to strengthen itself.

Welcome Expo rescue drills first emergency safety chemical tanks debut (1)

Shanghai World Expo terrorist attacks, resulted in the group.

The city's emergency medical system, an order with death race of rescue operations in 5 minutes and quickly expand ... Yesterday, the Shanghai World Expo healthcare sector in Yan Chai Hospital wide city of large-scale combat exercises, true thing simulated the Expo opening that can occur when the most serious emergency.

Rescue teams arrive 10 minutes "scene"

2 o'clock in the afternoon, the simulate Expo area, the sudden explosion shattered the calm, the Flash of gunpowder, live flesh, crowd around in all directions.

Police, armed personnel quickly control set up picket lines, roads, the evacuation of the masses. Located in the Park of Shanghai Municipality and emergency command center side sent Park medical team will focus on the wounded to a security zone to wait for rescue while immediately with telephone call to the distance from the nearest Park three hospitals--Yan Chai Hospital. "Site of a large number of the wounded, the situation is unknown, please immediately carry out the rescue. ”

North Park Road, Yan Chai Hospital door, alarm, emergency medical unit in 5 minutes with first aid equipment on board the ambulance to the Park.

10 minutes later, the team has been busy on the scene of the explosion. In accordance with international practice, the Park is divided into red and blue gives green and black colors. A dozen appear asphyxia, bleeding, severe poisoning, shock in critical condition of the wounded were placed in the red zone, and plug the red flag; and the severity of medium and small audience was separately placed in yellow, blue and green area.

Ambulance work busy and not mess with, the time a melted in the past.

Bandage on his head, chest, infusion, tracheostomy, stretcher after another shuttle between the ambulance ... Emergency officials received reports, one injured in serious burns. Telephone immediately transferred to the Ruijin hospital, 1, ambulances to Puxi jibing. 7 in ambulances carrying 25 wounded along Expo green channel drove to Yan Chai Hospital. 14 after the wound treatment on the spot and proximity to the audience after the withdrawal of its own contact. It is learnt that the Shanghai Expo medical security seven designated hospitals established Expo expert consultation group on critical issues and wounded 24-hour consultation.

GE Medical diagnosis technology to support the Olympic equestrian events

Beijing, August 7, 2008, General Electric (GE) its annual sales of over 170 billion of GE Medical Group today announced that the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, GE Medical Group will be held at the Sha Tin, Hong Kong Olympic equestrian events provide advanced portable ultrasound system LOGIQ e.

The national team of veterinarians can use this innovative portable ultrasound system, in order to participate in Olympic 200 horses for medical care, help veterinary recognition horse tendon and ligament injuries early signs, as well as help identify other will affect the horses health signs, such as infection, bone surface bruises or flow diagrams.

GE LOGIQ e medical group of imaging quality high, only use the battery to operate for nearly an hour, and its volume only notebook size, easy to carry, this allows the system to medical imaging, security and multiple roles, as horses medical imaging scans of the important tools.

The Hong Kong Jockey Club Games Veterinary Services Manager and Veterinary Clinic service leaders Dr. Chris Riggs said: "we will make every effort to ensure that during the Olympic Games competition horses health.

This includes building a State-of-the-art facilities are equipped with Special Olympics veterinary clinics. In our various diagnostic facilities, LOGIQ e ultrasound system is a very valuable tool. Its image quality excellent, platforms, easy-to-use, many veterinarians can be easily operated. In addition, because of the Olympic equestrian competition held in multiple sports, this portable instrument particularly for value.

In recent years, the development of ultrasound technology has made this imaging technique as in sports medicine play a unique role in important tools.

Now, more and more clinical doctors gradually more portable and affordable medical solutions replace those used in hospitals only weighs 400 pounds of equipment.

This portable ultrasound system can solve traditional size of diagnostic imaging equipment in large animal Imaging scanning difficult problems, while at the same time to achieve the difficult to scan sites of high quality imaging.

GE Medical Group Asia clinical systems Director Yusaku Isa said: "GE Medical Group of portable ultrasound system since the Turin 2006 Winter Olympic Games has been applied to sports medicine, at the same time provide for top athletes.

Our ultrasound system for the first time in the Olympic Horse medicine, we feel very happy. We will provide the medical team of veterinarians to provide advanced ultrasound system, used in China to take part in the Olympic Games of all the Olympic horse races. ”

From a historical point of view, each Olympic comments always around the player's score.

Medals of honor represents those able to climb the podium and personal recognition. However, there are some groups that we cannot ignore, such as those involved in the game of horse.

Damage may occur.

For example, this month, as the race in training injuries, is expected to reach Gold Medal of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in the 27-year-old Royal rider, 3 freestyle world champion Zara Phillips was forced to withdraw from the games.

Power medical imaging development TI launched ultrasonic Development Kit Kit

Recently, Texas instruments (TI) announcing to fully meet the medical needs of diagnostic ultrasound products manufacturers embedded processor software toolkit, fulfilled in order to meet the needs of medical imaging equipment manufacturer and provides a highly customizable digital signal processor (DSP) and high performance analog products's commitment.

As the TI series products of the first paragraph, the Toolkit can help manufacturers through the TI C64x + DSP platform more powerful processing capabilities to easily conduct Ultrasonic application development, allowing medical institutions and medical staff to faster, more accurate diagnosis for patients.

TI applies to medical diagnostic ultrasound products embedded processor software toolkit (STK) can achieve universal processing module optimization implementation to fully exploit the TI C64x + architecture of high performance and low power consumption, less ultrasound system development time.

In addition, TI also provides for medical imaging TMS320C6455 DSP Starter Pack (DSK), low-cost development platform can be utilized for the manufacturer to assess and highly programmable DSP algorithm provides a simple and easy-to-use solutions in medical imaging product development times for leading edge.

Main features and benefits

· Optimized, universal ultrasonic treatment block C64x + software module helps manufacturers accelerate product launch process, while also reducing the cost and power consumption increase coding efficiency and system performance.

· The complete source code for all modules are available for developers offer comprehensive visibility and achieve module customization and differentiation.

· Abstraction by module, well-defined APIs can simplify the development work, while at the same time and easily integrated into existing systems.

· Complete benchmark assessment of the implementation of the module, as well as with other schema comparison easier and faster.

· Comprehensive test bench ensures that the functionality of the module, and contribute to the assessment and development.

You can easily add customized test vectors for any input function and periodic performance review.

· Each optimization module full documentation can provide relevant calculation optimization C64x + kernel methods of encoding instructions for the optimization of the kernel can be used as a model for other encoding module.

· Provide one year of technical support and patches, including TI application team in the coming years, the publication of the latest patches and support.

Databeans r Director and CEO, Susie Inouye pointed out: "in the next few years, we expect the medical imaging applications will undergo major changes, which are limited to basic diagnostic capabilities of traditional image mode into by miniaturization, high-precision portable equipment of the new industrial environment.

Obviously, the manufacturers need more flexibility, more portable, low-cost ultrasonic equipment, and TI have low power, high performance and flexible programming of digital signal processors will enable them to benefit from. ”

Let the ultrasound imaging quality taller, lower power consumption (1)

Ultrasound platform of imaging quality and system power consumption, always been vary in "zero-sum game", especially for portable devices.

As early as in April 2007, ADI has launched the world's first integrated 8 channel in AD9271 microchip — but an year and a half later, for some of the more high-end applications, the chip appeared to be in power on "powerless."

This time came into being higher performance, lower-power chips also became inevitable.

"The industry has been looking forward to these two chips," ADI greater China Senior Business Manager Zhou Wen sheng on electronic engineering world.

Actually, this is two kind of chips?

A true "single"

Talk about the latest two eight-channel ultrasonic receiver AD9272, Paul Sheng AD9273, prefer to be described as a true "single solution".

Together with the previous AD9271, AD927x products use integrates eight-channel single-chip replaces the previous discrete solutions, each channel contains a low noise amplifier (LNA), a variable gain amplifier (VGA), an anti-aliasing filter (AAF) and a 12-bit analog-digital converter (ADC).

"Compared with digital technology, simulation technology more rely on accumulation," says Paul is better.

From previous discrete programmes to "single" programme, to today's from AD9271 AD9273, AD9273, seemingly simulation product features are only a small step forward, in fact there are quite a lot of technology background. Of these, the most valuable, and it is precisely this ADI has some accumulation of old engineer: when the company was founded in ADI working them, now 60 or 70 years old and still working for the ADI, they even can clap CEO shoulders feel free to chat. At the same time as the transfer of product platform, more and more companies to programmes, ADI has increased a lot of system integration engineer, who also became the core of ADI market share.

And ADI in FY 2007 sales, compared to $ 24.3 medical electronic share of about 5%, and the traditional advantages of the Terminal market industrial and instrumentation, consumer electronics, wireless infrastructure and not a very big compared to.

But the average annual growth of 18% still makes people shall not be underestimated. At the same time, medical electronics has also been many businesses as secondary PC, mobile phone after the next round of competition.

Conventional medical electronics field, can be divided into 5 parts: Imaging, patient monitoring, instrumentation, consumer and implants.

Which medical imaging including CT, ultrasound, digital x-ray, MRI, currently the world's most popular is the ultrasonic and digital x-ray (2000 basic analog x-ray machines, this digital faster). While the current domestic production CT vendor less familiar is the GE, Neusoft. While MRI in domestic is not a very mature. While most of the medical business ADI are based on medical imaging systems.

Patient care category more refers to ECG machine, Pulse Oximeter, ventilator and automated external defibrillator.

For example, high-risk patients need to take your Pulse Oximeter with GPS functionality, you can reference the location of the patient, if a problem occurs, you can pass the recent rescue centre where patients.

The main instrument is the analysis.

If the blood analysis, urine analysis, etc.

The remaining two parts of the consumer and embedded devices, ADI now do less, but also very concerned about.

In the past ten to twenty years, consumer products in Europe and more popular, glucose monitor, ear thermometers and blood pressure and heart rate monitor for all products belonging to this class. Implantable devices in general are integrated small system, it can detect your blood sugar concentrations, when the concentration is greater than a certain amount of time needed to release the drug, the drug has been implanted into your body, then it will stimulate the release of the drug, this technology has not yet, but already very popular abroad.