May/June 2015 Archives

June 17, 2015

Biomedical Engineering Education in Japan

Author(s): Toshiyo Tamura

Biomedical Engineering Education in Japan https://www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/06/header.jpg 618 370 IEEE Pulse IEEE Pulse //www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2022/06/ieee-pulse-logo2x.png June 17, 2015 March 4, 2022

This year, IEEE Pulse has been examining biomedical engineering education around the world. This month, we take a look at biomedical engineering education in Japan. Biomedical engineering education in Japan…

June 17, 2015

Information Processing for Neonatal Health Care

Author(s): Jayanta Mukherjee

Information Processing for Neonatal Health Care https://www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/06/header1.jpg 618 370 IEEE Pulse IEEE Pulse //www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2022/06/ieee-pulse-logo2x.png June 17, 2015 March 4, 2022

Health care for newborn babies, in particular in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), poses various challenges in defining and coordinating critical decision making processes involving their treatment and the…

June 17, 2015

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist-Engineer

Author(s): IEEE Pulse

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist-Engineer https://www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/06/header2.jpg 618 370 IEEE Pulse IEEE Pulse //www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2022/06/ieee-pulse-logo2x.png June 17, 2015 March 4, 2022

Dr. Domenico Laurenza In August at EMBC15 in Milan, Dr. Domenico Laurenza, of bgC3, Kirkland-Seattle, USA and the Museo Galileo, Florence, Italy, will deliver a keynote speech entitled “Machines and…

June 17, 2015

Building a Better Breast Pump

Author(s): Summer Allen

Building a Better Breast Pump https://www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/06/header3.jpg 618 370 IEEE Pulse IEEE Pulse //www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2022/06/ieee-pulse-logo2x.png June 17, 2015 March 4, 2022

Right now thousands of women are connected to a machine. This machine is essentially a vacuum, but these women aren’t housecleaning: they’re pumping breast milk for their babies. Breast pumps…

May 15, 2015

Ethical Considerations for Deep Brain Stimulation

Author(s): Bernard Allan Cohen

Ethical Considerations for Deep Brain Stimulation https://www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/themes/movedo/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 IEEE Pulse IEEE Pulse //www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2022/06/ieee-pulse-logo2x.png May 15, 2015 March 4, 2022

A recent issue of IEEE Pulse (March/April 2015) featured an article by Shannon Fischer entitled “Inside Tract: Can Deep Brain Stimulation Survive Its Reputation for Success?” Deep brain stimulation (DBS)…

May 14, 2015

Changing the Calculus of Pediatric Product Development

Author(s): Sarah Campbell

Changing the Calculus of Pediatric Product Development https://www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/05/may-2015-cover.jpg 618 370 IEEE Pulse IEEE Pulse //www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2022/06/ieee-pulse-logo2x.png May 14, 2015 March 4, 2022

First, Deliece Hofen drops the pill into hot water to soften the outside coating. Then, she slices through the center of the pill with an X-ACTO knife and squeezes the…

May 14, 2015

The Heart of the Matter

Author(s): David L. Chandler

The Heart of the Matter https://www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/05/featured-chandler-may-2015.jpg 618 370 IEEE Pulse IEEE Pulse //www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2022/06/ieee-pulse-logo2x.png May 14, 2015 March 4, 2022

The smooth, powerful muscles of a newborn baby’s heart are pulsing normally, squeezing in and letting go rhythmically as a 3-mm-wide catheter-like tube snakes its way through, entering via an…

May 14, 2015

Light Plus Sound

Author(s): Leslie Mertz

Light Plus Sound https://www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/05/feature-mertz-may-2015.jpg 618 370 IEEE Pulse IEEE Pulse //www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2022/06/ieee-pulse-logo2x.png May 14, 2015 March 4, 2022

In just a decade, optoacoustic or photoacoustic imaging has become one of the fastest growing areas of biomedical technology, exploding from just a handful of research groups in the late…

May 14, 2015

Listening to Light and Seeing Through: Biomedical Photoacoustic Imaging

Author(s): Chulhong Kim, Daniel Razansky

Listening to Light and Seeing Through: Biomedical Photoacoustic Imaging https://www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/themes/movedo/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 IEEE Pulse IEEE Pulse //www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2022/06/ieee-pulse-logo2x.png May 14, 2015 March 4, 2022

In today’s clinical practice, human vision remains the major diagnostic imaging tool that can capture the shapes and colors of tissue surfaces. Similarly, a very popular manmade device, the camera,…