Diagnostics
& Monitors
Biomedical Engineering
SwRI developed this fetal ultrasound monitor for a medical device company.
Medical diagnostics and monitoring is a large field with the involvement of a wide array of technologies. Many traditional techniques for diagnosing and monitoring are in the process of transitioning to point-of-care and home health applications. SwRI engineers have experience with the following medical applications:
- Monitoring
- Pressure
- Pump performance/drug delivery
- Blood gases
- pH
- Conductivity (non-invasive and invasive)
- Cardiovascular signals (heart rate, blood pressure, waveforms, etc.)
- Respiration
- Motion artifact rejection
- Wound healing status
- Body temperature
- Environmental parameters
- Spinal fusion
- Ventilator management
- Dialysis management
- Diagnostics
- Breast cancer detection (ultrasound)
- Automated cervical cancer detection (flow cytometry)
- Disease detection assays (microfluidics)
- Biopsy needles
- Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
- Predictive modeling
- Cardiac rhythm analysis
- Heart rate variability
- Vulnerable plaque detection (catheter-based spectroscopy)
- Peripheral vascular health
Details regarding specific detection methodologies can be found on the following pages:
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