SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE

	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:

• Biosensors

• Microfluidics

• Imaging

For more information about biosensor capabilities at SwRI or how you can contract with SwRI, please contact Keith Bartels, Ph.D., kbartels@swri.org, (210) 522-6062 or Heather Hanson, hhanson@swri.org, (210) 522-5798.

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April 06, 2010