Title :
Medical electronics: NMR reaches the marketplace, biosensors show promise, and progress is made in pacemakers and implantable drug pumps
Author :
Horgan, Jonathan
Abstract :
New developments during 1984 were reported in a number of areas. Advances in cardiac imaging occurred in computed topography, ultrasound, and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Pacemakers and heart-assist systems also progressed. A spate of other equipment-including implantable programmable pumps to meter insulin to diabetics and external closed-loop drug infusors for critical care-inched toward application. Regulatory issues are also discussed.
Keywords :
biomedical NMR; biomedical equipment; computerised tomography; electrocardiography; pacemakers; patient diagnosis; radiography; standards; 1984; cardiac imaging; computed topography; diabetics; external closed-loop drug infusors; heart-assist systems; implantable programmable pumps; meter insulin; nuclear magnetic resonance; pacemakers; ultrasound; Biomedical imaging; Blood; Educational institutions; Heart; Medical services; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Pacemakers;
Journal_Title :
Spectrum, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MSPEC.1985.6370537
