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Medical Design, January 2009

Refining the beating heart model

Feb 2, 2009 3:24 PM

An animated 3D CAD model of the human heart put together by a team of U.K. doctors is so realistic its four chambers beat in the same asymmetrical rhythm as a real heart...

Is that tumor growing? Software tells

Feb 2, 2009 3:32 PM

A German company has devised software that examines MRI or CT data and builds 3D models of tumors, changing organs, and tissues of interest...

Electronic nose mimics animals

Feb 2, 2009 3:36 PM

Connecting a sensitive detector that can distinguish hundreds of different chemical compounds to a module that mimics the way animals recognize odors is letting researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) devise a sensitive “electronic nose.”...

How Graphics Hardware Helps Spine Surgery

Feb 2, 2009 3:39 PM

A detailed finite-element model of the human skeleton may now let researchers estimate the strain put on healthy vertebrae during back surgery...

Custom valve lightens O2 concentrator

Feb 2, 2009 4:15 PM

A more portable oxygen concentrator from Nidek Medical Inc, Birmingham, Ala. (nidekmedical. com) turns air into 95% pure oxygen for respiration...

Closing wounds with lasers

Feb 2, 2009 4:18 PM

Tel Aviv University physicist Abraham Katzir and colleagues have developed a laser-based wound-closure device with a feedback loop that prevents it from overheating tissues. Their early research hunted for the temperatures at which flesh will bond to itself and heat without damage...