| The beginnings of the medical tricorder! [message #213117] |
So, 05 Februar 2006 21:32 |
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I just saw on an Arena football game someone using a portable handheld
device, consisting of a main display unit and a very small square "sensor"
being waved over an area, to apparently check on a just-occurred injury!!
The worker was very intently looking at the main display unit for readouts
while waving the pocket-sized sensor over the injury! The sensor was a
small rectangular box about the size of a box of small wooden matches (you
know the type, the camping size) and it had 2 red LED's flashing on the
bottom surface facing the area it was scanning.
It looked like, for all the world...Dr. McCoy or Mr. Crusher scanning a
wound!
I did a Google search but couldn't find anything significant...until I came
across
http://www.spec.com/omnisite/index.html
The company Omni-Site is actually making a portable scanner to detect
injuries! This may be what I saw!
I think the great-great-granddad of the medical tricorder has arrived!!
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| Re: The beginnings of the medical tricorder! [message #213123 ] |
Mo, 06 Februar 2006 07:50 |
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"Snake" <fluidstates_NO+SPAM [at] REMOVE-ME.verizon.IHATESPAM.SPAM_VAC.com> wrote
in message news:zhtFf.2980$pY.1166 [at] trndny01...
> I just saw on an Arena football game someone using a portable handheld
> device, consisting of a main display unit and a very small square "sensor"
> being waved over an area, to apparently check on a just-occurred injury!!
>
> The worker was very intently looking at the main display unit for readouts
> while waving the pocket-sized sensor over the injury! The sensor was a
> small rectangular box about the size of a box of small wooden matches (you
> know the type, the camping size) and it had 2 red LED's flashing on the
> bottom surface facing the area it was scanning.
>
> It looked like, for all the world...Dr. McCoy or Mr. Crusher scanning a
> wound!
>
The odds have to be 1 million to 1, but as I was flipping, I saw the same
scene. I thought it was somne kind of electromagnetic pulsing thing, like
they do in physical therapy?
--
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| Re: The beginnings of the medical tricorder! [message #217067 ] |
Fr, 10 Februar 2006 02:10 |
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In article <NkCFf.7450$No4.7349 [at] fe12.lga>, "Glassman" <jksinrod [at] aol.com> wrote:
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>"Snake" <fluidstates_NO+SPAM [at] REMOVE-ME.verizon.IHATESPAM.SPAM_VAC.com> wrote
>in message news:zhtFf.2980$pY.1166 [at] trndny01...
>> I just saw on an Arena football game someone using a portable handheld
>> device, consisting of a main display unit and a very small square "sensor"
>> being waved over an area, to apparently check on a just-occurred injury!!
>>
>> The worker was very intently looking at the main display unit for readouts
>> while waving the pocket-sized sensor over the injury! The sensor was a
>> small rectangular box about the size of a box of small wooden matches (you
>> know the type, the camping size) and it had 2 red LED's flashing on the
>> bottom surface facing the area it was scanning.
>>
>> It looked like, for all the world...Dr. McCoy or Mr. Crusher scanning a
>> wound!
>>
>
> The odds have to be 1 million to 1, but as I was flipping, I saw the same
>scene. I thought it was somne kind of electromagnetic pulsing thing, like
>they do in physical therapy?
>
>
Most likely it is a handheld ultrasound device.
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| Re: The beginnings of the medical tricorder! [message #217073 ] |
Fr, 10 Februar 2006 16:52 |
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"GMAN" <glenzabr [at] xmission.com> wrote in message
news:dsgpdb$bfa$1 [at] news.xmission.com...
> In article <NkCFf.7450$No4.7349 [at] fe12.lga>, "Glassman" <jksinrod [at] aol.com>
> wrote:
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>>"Snake" <fluidstates_NO+SPAM [at] REMOVE-ME.verizon.IHATESPAM.SPAM_VAC.com>
>>wrote
>>in message news:zhtFf.2980$pY.1166 [at] trndny01...
>>> I just saw on an Arena football game someone using a portable handheld
>>> device, consisting of a main display unit and a very small square
>>> "sensor"
>>> being waved over an area, to apparently check on a just-occurred
>>> injury!!
>>>
>>> The worker was very intently looking at the main display unit for
>>> readouts
>>> while waving the pocket-sized sensor over the injury! The sensor was a
>>> small rectangular box about the size of a box of small wooden matches
>>> (you
>>> know the type, the camping size) and it had 2 red LED's flashing on the
>>> bottom surface facing the area it was scanning.
>>>
>>> It looked like, for all the world...Dr. McCoy or Mr. Crusher scanning a
>>> wound!
>>>
>>
>> The odds have to be 1 million to 1, but as I was flipping, I saw the
>> same
>>scene. I thought it was somne kind of electromagnetic pulsing thing, like
>>they do in physical therapy?
>>
>>
> Most likely it is a handheld ultrasound device.
I was thinking that and did a Google of portable ultrasounds before I made
the post. The only problem with it being an ultrasound was:
a) the small handheld sensor "box" had no wires - not a one - connecting it
to the main unit
b) (most importantly) the sensor "box" was not touching the athlete during
its use. Not even once. I was waved over the area, at a distance of about
2 to 3 inches - exactly like McCoy's hand scanner!
It look like - all the world like - McCoy or Crusher using their own
scanners. Small handheld wireless remote box about the size of a bottle of
Write-Out, flashing it's 2 LED lights, and a hand held readout in the other
hand being intently studied.
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| Re: The beginnings of the medical tricorder! [message #217079 ] |
Sa, 11 Februar 2006 04:59 |
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New research is coming through with something approaching tricorders --
they can pick up proteins and scan for the known flaws that occur with
some diseases.
Getting a bit closer; but they will probably have to combine several
different diagnostic tools at once.
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