“A New Concept for Medical Imaging Centered on Cellular Phone Technology”
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0002075
“The goal of this study is to introduce and demonstrate the feasibility of a new concept in medical imaging that is centered on cellular phone technology and which may provide a solution to medical imaging in underserved areas. The new system replaces the conventional stand-alone medical imaging device with a new medical imaging system made of two independent components connected through cellular phone technology.”
This paper represents the concept of engineering a device not with the intent of improving its effectiveness over previous devices but instead aiming to improve affordability and ease of use. The idea is that costs would be reduced by using a single centralized Data Acquisition and viewing device which would be fed information from small portable scanners.
This is a very believable claim and one on which the authors state they have already done some successful testing. They many have a vested interest in seeing there produce succeed but no more so then the companies that are currently producing the more expensive stand alone versions.
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