Cell phones as diagnostic tools in areas without ultrasound & X-Ray machines

Cell phones as diagnostic tools in areas without ultrasound & X-Ray machines via Book of Joe.

A professor of bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley and his colleagues have developed a cheaper way to perform medical imaging using a cellular phone.

Boris Rubinsky’s team has developed a portable medical scanner that can be plugged into a cellular phone, which transmits raw ultrasound or X-ray scanning data to a remote computer processor. The computer then converts the data to images and relays these back for viewing on the cell phone screen.

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