Mobile Point-Of-Care Monitors and Diagnostic Device Design

ISBN-13: 9780367656454 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 186 str.

Walter Karlen

Opis

Presenting the combined expertise of contributors from various fields, this multidisciplinary text offers valuable insight into state-of-the-art technologies, research, and methods for designing personal diagnostic and ambulatory healthcare devices. Covering everything from sensors, systems, and software to integration, usability, and regulatory

Spis treści

Interfacing Diagnostics with Consumer Electronics. Lab on a Cellphone. The Phone Oximeter. Current Technology and Advances in Transepidermal Water Loss Sensors. Portable High-Frequency Ultrasound Imaging System Design and Hardware Considerations. Automated Blood Smear Analysis for Mobile Malaria Diagnosis. Usability Engineering for Mobile Point-of-Care Devices. Translating Sensor Technology into the Medical Device Environment.

O autorze

Walter Karlen received his M.Sc in micro-engineering and Ph.D in computer, communication, and information sciences from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. Dr. Karlen currently holds a joint post-doctoral fellowship with the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa and the Electrical and Computer Engineering in Medicine Research Group at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, where he works on mobile phone implementations of biomedical sensors for global health applications.