OBJECTIVE To validate an advisory service and online information technology management for health and helps to make assessment and acquisition processes an informed medical equipment according to the market and the needs of the health institutions. MATERIALS AND METHODS Internet via a technological solution supported ona data base containing systematic and updated information on technical spe...

Spectral imaging is a technology that integrates conventional imaging and spectroscopy to get both spatial and spectral information from an object. Although this technology was originally developed for remote sensing, it has been extended to the biomedical engineering field as a powerful analytical tool for biological and biomedical research. This review introduces the basics of spectral imagin...

Brain Computer Interface is a biomedical equipment used to perform user interaction with computer equipment based on a brain activity measurement. Modular Research System presented in this article is a prototype platform under development aimed for supporting the research groups with low–cost versatile and flexible hardware platform for BCI research but also easy construct and verification of c...

One area of biomedical instrumentation that is becoming increasingly familiar to the general public is that of patient monitoring. Here electronic equipment provides a continuous watch over the vital characteristics and parameters of the critically ill. In the coronary care and the intensive care units in the hospitals, thousands of lives have been saved in the recent years because of the caref...

Clinical Engineering (CE) represents the part of Biomedical Engineering focused on the applications of theories and methodologies of the broad biomedical engineering field to improve the quality of health services. Its activities especially concern the appropriate management of biomedical technologies (from purchasing to risk controlling) and the development and the adjustment of hospital infor...

OBJECTIVE In 2000, a referral hospital in the Gambia accepted a donation of oxygen concentrators to help maintain oxygen supplies. The concentrators broke down and were put into storage. A case study was done to find the reasons for the problem and to draw lessons to help improve both oxygen supplies and the success of future equipment donations. METHODS A technical assessment of the concentr...

Toshiya Fujisato, Dohiko Terada, Kenji Minatoya, Kenichi Yoshida, Kazuo Niwaya Akio Kishida, Shigehiro Hashimoto, Takeshi Nakatani, Soichiro Kitamura National Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Japan Japan Association for the Advancement of Medical Equipment, Tokyo, Japan Fundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation, Kobe, Japan Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan Osaka Institute o...