Archive for the ‘Commercial opportunities’ Category
Friday, April 24th, 2009
The invention by the Chinese University of Hong Kong is a new method for ameliorating the onset of osteoporosis and other conditions involving loss of musculoskeletal integrity and function.
It is estimated that 1 in 3 women and 1 in 12 men over the age of 50 worldwide have osteoporosis. It ...
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
The system developed by Dr Paul Gnanayutham of University of Portsmouth, UK, uses patients’ brain waves and eye and muscular movements (together termed biopotentials) to move a cursor on a computer. The targets to which a person can point the cursor at on the prototype device include “yes,” “no,”’ “thank ...
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
The IGS system developed at the University of Florida includes robotic imaging and tool-holding capability that increases operational accuracy and precision and thereby provides higher quality imaging while reducing operation time, say its inventors. The design includes three integrated robots, two for imaging and one for tool-holding. The imaging robots ...
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
There are many opportunities for the medical device industry to make hospitals safer places for patients. Evidence of this is found in the ECRI Institute's 2008 list of the 10 most dangerous health technology hazards facing hospitals. The list, which is updated annually, is based on problems reported to and ...
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
The Oxford University invention has been tested on a variety of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) configurations and anatomies and could be implemented on existing 1.5 T and new 3.0 T MRI systems.
Intensity variations in MRI images cause the same tissue to have brightness variations across the image. In severe cases ...
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
The opportunities for partnership with Saarland University and Saarland University of Applied Sciences, Germany, are for licensing or purchasing their products and for cooperative work with the scientific departments of the Universities.
Some of the research they have developed includes:
* New method for manufacturing dental implants
* New method for diagnostics in ...
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