Friday, 9 December 2011

Biomedical Researcher turns HP TouchPad Tablet to MRI Lab

Biomedical Researcher turns HP TouchPad Tablet to MRI Lab

We know that the PCs and other electronics equipment is kept away from the magnet room to achieve minimal interference with the MRI equipment, since, there are very few devices which can withstand the strong magnetic field.
Now, the interesting part is that a Stanford Bioengineering Research Associate Andrew B. Holbrook has developed a promising solution to this problem with the help of HP webOS devices that can help takeInterventional MRI in strong magnetic field.
The idea is the use minimum metal and more of plastic material along with very less glue which is basically forms the HP Touchpad (obviously metal parts such as vibration motors, speakers etc. were removed.) TouchPad hardware engineers assisted him in the modification process.
“Before this we’d either have a very clunky in-room display with ten keys to control things, or one person would be in the magnet room holding the transducer in place, and another would run the test and interpret the results from afar. With this, I can connect to the transducer, prescribe the test, run it, and then view the data after it was run—all without leaving the transducer’s side.”

Advantages of the HP Touchpad MRI Lab


  • High-powered PC server system which is MR-safe (running hybrid-PDK apps)



  • An app to control an InSightec ExAblate Conformal Bone System HIFU transducer to run an ultrasound test commonly run in the scan room.



  • View respiratory activity & HIFU information using bellows app running on a portable webOS device.



  • MRI applications that allow scanning in the magnet scan room using a platform called RTHawk, a real time MRI control system for GE scanners.



  • Apps that can control slice positioning and MRI scan parameter adjustment in MRI scans.



  • The various multi-tasking features, multi-touch gestures, controlling image positions and so many others with this TouchPad for MRI control.



  • Dr. Holbrook sees continued opportunity for MRI projects in the webOS platform including phones and the TouchPad. This is certainly going to take the radiology and imaging to a next level with such easy and intuitive control of the various systems of an interventional procedure.

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