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...patient, the test will feel and look no different from a standard ultrasound, in which a probe is used to peer deep into breast tissue and create an image using high-frequency sound waves. It takes two minutes longer to do a second scan and analyze the results with special software. The initial ultrasound finds the lump, according to Dr. Richard Barr, author of the study. The second scan probes the lump's characteristics, including how much it moves or stretches--which is where the technology gets its name...
...starter kit, the NXT box I cracked open was packed with some pretty high-tech gadgetry. For $250, you get 577 pieces, including sensors that can detect sound, light, touch and obstacles (using ultrasound). You can even control it wirelessly with Bluetooth technology. Most robots are fun for a day or two. Lego offers a more lasting thrill; you can build a robot of your own design, play with it for a while, then pull it apart and build something else...
...program. He also carries a battery-powered electrocardiogram (ECG) machine and portable lab kits to do finger sticks that test blood-glucose levels. The doctors often work with lab services that send out technicians to draw blood and with medical companies that provide portable X-ray machines, scanners and ultrasound devices...
Another actor has entered California politics--not as a candidate but as the spark for legislation. The "Tom Cruise bill," passed last week by the California state assembly and now headed for the senate, prohibits the sale of ultrasound devices to anyone but professionals licensed to use the machines. Assemblyman Ted Lieu, the Southern California Democrat who wrote the bill, grew concerned in November when Cruise and then pregnant fiancé Katie Holmes purchased a machine for a reported $200,000 to track the growth of their baby at home. The scans are considered safe when properly conducted, but the Food...
Current fetal heart monitors send an ultrasound signal into a woman’s body and measure bounceback from the umbilical cord, a procedure that is cumbersome as well as “invasive and indirect,” Orenstein said. LONO’s technology tracks the fetal heart rate itself using acoustics to create a passive, safer, and much more mobile device than traditional Doppler ultrasound...