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From: brandon@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Brandon S. Dewberry)
Subject: Non-invasive glucose monitoring by optical absorption
Organization: Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Nashville, TN, USA
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 03:29:39 GMT

Hi,
does anyone know if there is a commercial product which determines
blood glucose levels using light absorption spectral analysis?
Like pulse oxymetry, only for glucose rather than O2. 

I've heard a rumor that one is in use in Britain.  The rumor
stated that it uses laser light.  Take this rumor with a grain
of salt, though, this device may have been designed
by the same aliens who put mysterious designs in wheat fields. 

I've read journal reports which imply that glucose absorbs to some extent
at about 5 different frequencies of light.  Each of these may be stomped
by some other plasma/RBC constituent.

If anyone has any more info or comment, please post.

Thanks,

Brandon

PS By the way, I'm not only interested because of research - I have
a diabetic kid.
-- 
Brandon S. Dewberry               Biomedical Engineering Department 
brandon@vuse.vanderbilt.edu       Vanderbilt University
"The importance of the choice of one word is made apparent in the 
difference between "lightning" and "lightning bug."    Mark Twain
From: ksh@mayo.edu (Kerrie Holton)
Newsgroups: sci.engr.biomed
Subject: Re: Re:COCHLEA IMPLANTS
Date: 7 Apr 92 13:47:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: bmw.1992Apr7.134740.21374
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Organization: Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN. Campus

In article <rqjo5INNre2@centurion.ksu.ksu.edu>, sharmach@centurion.ksu.ksu.edu (   CHEETAH) writes:
|> Hi..
|> I am looking for some information on Cochlea Implants ..If you know of
|> any profs working in this area please let me know their
|> addresses(univs)..
|> Thanx
|> Chetan Sharma 

Hi Chetan,

	I know that the department of audiology here at Mayo works
with cochlear implants.  I think the head of the department, Martin
Robinette, is in charge of the research.  He can be reached at
Mayo Clinic
Rochester MN 55905

	Kerrie
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From: rudi@igc.ethz.ch (Rudi van Drunen)
Subject: Research positions
Reply-To: rudi@igc.ethz.ch
Organization: Computational Chemistry, ETH, Zuerich
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 12:01:51 GMT


Hi All!


As I am looking for a new research position or maybe even a PhD project
in the field of biomedical engineering I would like to investigate
the possibilities of applying for such a position in the USA.

Please mail me some info on your university, what's going on in the field
and who I should turn to in order to get more info and apply for a position.


Please use Email,  
(rudi@cs.rug.nl)
(drunen@HGRRUG5.bitnet)

THANKS!!

Rudi.
From: dinsdale@chtm.eece.unm.edu (Don McDaniel)
Newsgroups: sci.engr.biomed
Subject: Re: Non-invasive glucose monitoring by optical absorption
Date: 8 Apr 92 17:06:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: lynx.h#rjqqa
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <1992Apr8.032939.1747@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> brandon@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Brandon S. Dewberry) writes:
>Hi,
>does anyone know if there is a commercial product which determines
>blood glucose levels using light absorption spectral analysis?
>Like pulse oxymetry, only for glucose rather than O2. 
>
stuff deleted....

I've heard that Sandia National Laboratories has an advanced program in
this area.  Comercialization is said to be imminent.  The device uses
LEDs at two wavelengths and is completely noninvasive.

This is heresay and Unfortunately I cannot direct you to any
publications on the research.  Indeed, with proprietary considerations,
they may not have published at all.

--
_________________________________________________________________
Don McDaniel                           dinsdale@chtm.eece.unm.edu
Center for High Technology Materials
University of New Mexico
From: ksh@mayo.edu (Kerrie Holton)
Newsgroups: sci.engr.biomed
Subject: Re: Re:COCHLEA IMPLANTS
Date: 7 Apr 92 13:50:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: bmw.1992Apr7.135033.21475
Distribution: na
Organization: Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN. Campus


I forgot to tell you, there is also work being done at the Kresge
Hearing Institute, which is affiliated with Louisiana State University
School of Medicine and Tulane University Department of Biomedical 
Engineering.  Get in touch with Cedric Walker,
			cfw@mv3600.bmen.tulane.edu
			Dept. of BME
			tulane University
			New Orleans, LA 70118

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From: brandon@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Brandon S. Dewberry)
Subject: Re: Non-invasive glucose monitoring by optical absorption
Organization: Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Nashville, TN, USA
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 12:11:16 GMT


Concerning the latest I've learned on noninvasive glucose monitoring
by optical spectral absorption and differentiation:

I spoke with our endocrinologist, who mentioned that at the latest
conference he attended there was a great deal of discussion about this
technology, and that it was in clinical trials for FDA approval in the
US.  He couldn't remember the company name, but he thought someone
said there should be a monitor on the market this fall, assuming
it works fairly well.

The major problem, according to our son's doctor, is that of 
calibration and acceptable performance on people with various
skin pigmentations.  ..Seems to me to be simply a matter of
checking the bG manually, then calibrating the optical reading...

He also mentioned that the device is an off-shoot of a similar
one which checks for spoiled fruit in agriculture.  As the fruit
moves down the conveyor, its sugar content is automatically scanned
with a laser emitter/reciever.  Rotted fruit will have more than
average sugar.

Thanks for the tips so far, though there weren't enough really
to provide a summary.  I _am_ saving the info, and will summarize
when my responses subside.

Brandon
-- 
Brandon S. Dewberry               Biomedical Engineering Department 
brandon@vuse.vanderbilt.edu       Vanderbilt University
"The importance of the choice of one word is made apparent in the 
difference between "lightning" and "lightning bug."    Mark Twain
From: ksh@mayo.edu (Kerrie Holton)
Newsgroups: sci.engr.biomed
Subject: Re: Grad Schools for Medical Imaging?
Date: 6 Apr 92 20:42:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: bmw.1992Apr6.204242.17142
Distribution: na
Organization: Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN. Campus

In article <1992Apr2.014810.26700@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>, fractel1@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Darryl J Ong) writes:
|> 
|> Hi. I'm just finishing up my junior year at the Johns Hopkins
|> University and was wondering if anyone out there could recommend
|> a good graduate program in medical image processing and analysis 
|> and / or medical imaging systems?
|>  
|> ( especially computed tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging. )
|> 
|> If possible, I'd appreciate any names and their Departments.
|> Thanks.
|> 
|> 
|> Darryl Ong
|> 
|> 
|> .


I would love to take this opportunity to tell everyone about the
Medical Imaging program offered at the Mayo Clinic, by the Mayo graduate
school.

There is a specific dedicated academic program for Ph.d. students interested
in Medical imaging, with opportunities for research in a variety of fields,
which include medical image processing, under Rich Robb, Magnetic resonance
imaging ,under Dick Ehman and Steve Riederer, and cell microscopy under several
researchers in physiology and biophysics.

Since you are at Hopkins, you are probably very familiar with sun microsystems
for use in medical imaging.  In our biomedical imaging resource, we have 
a variety of systems which are reserved for student use.  Students also have
access to _Analyze_, a state of the art image visualization software package.

This software is available throughout the campus and is used by researchers
in MR, Radiation therapy planning and other areas.  

The campus has eight MRI machines, one of which is dedicated to research (no
more waiting until 3 am to get your images), and too many CT machines to count.

There is a lot more that I could tell you, but I don't want to get carried away.
Suffice it to say that Mayo is a choice place if you are considering imaging.
They even pay all their graduate students.  And give us health insurance, too.

Anyone who is interested should send e-mail to :

rar@mercedes.mayo.edu
in real life: Richard A. Robb, Ph.D.
	      Professor of Biophysics
              Mayo Graduate School
	      Rochester MN 55905
	      (507)284-4937



 
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From: dmc@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (David M Chelberg)
Newsgroups: sci.engr.biomed
Subject: Re: Top Schools in Biomedical Engg.
Date: 15 Apr 92 14:07:35 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <drues.703291773@pv320a.vincent.iastate.edu> drues@iastate.edu writes:
>In <1992Apr9.001130.10756@njitgw.njit.edu> andrews@magstim.njit.edu (John Andrews) writes:
>>Temple...Penn... NYU... there is a long list of good schools in the
>>worst neighborhoods. Comes with the territory, I guess.
>
>I'd take issue with that statement.  Iowa State has perhaps the oldest BME
>program in the country and it's located in Ames, Iowa where crime, especially
>violent crime is essentially unheard of.  Of course, this isn't the big city
>either.  :-)
>
>mike
>
>-- 
>Michael Drues                              Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
>Internet:drues@iastate.edu                        1146 Veterinary Medicine
>BITNET:v2.med@isumvs.bitnet                          Iowa State University
>Office:(515)294-6520(or 4-1771) Home:(515)233-5652        Ames, Iowa 50011

Purdue University also has a very good Bioengineering Program.
It is affiliated with Electrical Engineering, and the neighborhood
here is very low in crime.

-- Prof. David Chelberg
From: eyoung@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Newsgroups: sci.engr.biomed
Subject: Re: Foreign Students / Faculty
Date: 12 Apr 92 23:26:07 GMT
Reply-To: eyoung@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University

As a foreign student whose only language is English, I have followed this
thread with interest focussing on the language barrier question and would
like to point out a few things, Gerry.

	There is no engineering department at my institution but the biochem/
biophysics programs together (incoming class 10) contains exactly 3 students
who are citizens of the US.  All of us wrote the GRE and half of us wrote the
TOEFL; I have no difficulty understanding any of them except for the person
who graduated in physics.  However one colleague from Beijing has attended (not) for credit)
the undergraduate classes in Intro.Biochem (not new material for her) ---
both sections (i.e., lectures from two different professors)!

	The reason this person feels the need for such a tedious experience is 
that knowing the opposite of "recalcitrant" may help you pass the GRE but it
will not help you communicate the difference between "voltage" and "electro-
chemical potential" to confused undergrads.  All 10 of us are eventually 
going to have to do this as a requirement of our graduate program and my
Chinese friend is not anticipating an easy time.  She is hard-working,
though, and will probably do a good job thanks to the moral support of
her friend from Fudan.  They enjoy speaking in their native tongue 
together often.

	My points are these:
1)	No linguistic facility can prevent at least some confusion
when your TA uses M and your textbook uses tau for torque.  Hence my
difficulties with the physics person.  No standardized test could
feasibly cover knowledge of all the varied technical terms used
in biomedical/engineering sciences and screen for a "good" TA.
2)	My classmates are among the 9 brightest young people I know and would
make fabulous TAs on subjects they know and love.  Most will not have
a chance to TA subjects like that because the administration assigns
jobs more or less irrationally.
3)	I didn't come to school here because American culture is cool.  I
came because the economic and technological resources here far surpass 
anything normally available in my country, and I want the best opportunity
available.
4)	Just suppose you were _staying_ for what you knew was going to be
_years_ in a foreign country for reasons as in (4).  You have an exam in
two days and a head cold developing.  It is a 40 minute walk to the only
place you know which sells Coca-Cola and you have given up trying to get
regular supplies of Shreddies, pork chops, Pop-Tarts, Vivaldi, or even
a potato from time to time.  Wouldn't you become fast friends with the
first person you met who knew who Bones McCoy was?

Thanks for being thoughtful,
Edgar Young
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From: drues@iastate.edu (Michael E Drues)
Subject: Re: Top Schools in Biomedical Engg.
Reply-To: drues@iastate.edu
Organization: Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Iowa State Univ.
Distribution: world,local
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 22:49:33 GMT

In <1992Apr9.001130.10756@njitgw.njit.edu> andrews@magstim.njit.edu (John Andrews) writes:
>Temple...Penn... NYU... there is a long list of good schools in the
>worst neighborhoods. Comes with the territory, I guess.

I'd take issue with that statement.  Iowa State has perhaps the oldest BME
program in the country and it's located in Ames, Iowa where crime, especially
violent crime is essentially unheard of.  Of course, this isn't the big city
either.  :-)

mike

-- 
Michael Drues                              Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Internet:drues@iastate.edu                        1146 Veterinary Medicine
BITNET:v2.med@isumvs.bitnet                          Iowa State University
Office:(515)294-6520(or 4-1771) Home:(515)233-5652        Ames, Iowa 50011
From: bkottmann@falcon.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil (Brett Kottmann)
Newsgroups: sci.engr.biomed
Subject: Looking for a job?  Need a headhunter?
Date: 7 Apr 92 15:41:06 EST
Organization: Logicon Technical Services, Inc.

	Grabbed from misc.jobs.offered:

>                  ----------------------------------------
>                  OHIO/INDIANA/KENTUCKY HEADHUNTER LISTING
>                  ----------------------------------------
>
>                                Release 0.02
>            compiled by Mark W. Schumann <mark@whizbang.ncoast.org>
>                                4 April 1992
> 
>...
>From Randy L. Smith  <osu-cis!rls!randy, randy@rls.uucp,
>rls!randy@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>:
>
>"Like many people, I've had numerous experiences with slime, bodybag
>headhunters.  They either move you or loose you.  I've never been
>placed by a headhunter anywhere.  I've had only one good experience
>with a headhunter, but he never placed me either.  His name is;
>
>Norman E. Ewing
>MRG, Search & Placement, Inc. of Ohio
>1445 Worthington Woods Blvd., Suite 206
>Worthington, Ohio  43085
>614-847-9262 (voice)
>614-847-9266 (fax)
>
>"He goes by Norm, specializes in Biomedical, Scientific & Pharmaceutical
>placement.  Computers are his main thrust, but many other positions are
>handled as well.  He can be verbose, but always sincere and willing to
>help you however he can even if it's not directly related to placement.
>
>"I met Norm when I was Director of a computer center.  We didn't pay
>fees but that didn't stop him from being helpful.  I don't mind my name
>being used."
>

Brett
The best thing about morning is that it's over by noon.
From: andrews@magstim.njit.edu (John Andrews)
Newsgroups: sci.engr.biomed
Subject: Re: Top Schools in Biomedical Engg.
Summary: and you thought your city was bad!
Date: 9 Apr 92 00:11:30 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.


<stuff deleted>
>>It's also located in one of the worst neighborhoods in North America.
>>Robberies, assaults, and muggings are daily occurences; other, more
>>violent crimes are not uncommon.  (The campus is located in West Philadelphia,
>>an urban neighborhood with its better days far in the past.)   I would

heh heh heh. If that scares you away, you can come to NJIT. We have quite
an active biomed program, and our city is quite beautiful. Green everywhere,
flowers, you can almost hear the sweet song of nature as you stroll 
around downtown.... which by the way you can do at any time of the
day or night. Very conducive to quality, focused research into the realms
of nature (biomedical engineering).

Of course, if you belive all that about Newark, New Jersey, you deserve
what you get when you move here! 

Temple...Penn... NYU... there is a long list of good schools in the
worst neighborhoods. Comes with the territory, I guess.

:-)   :-)   :-)    <---- for those with no sense of humor.

								-=john

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From: sharmach@centurion.ksu.ksu.edu (   CHEETAH)
Newsgroups: sci.engr.biomed
Subject: Re:COCHLEA IMPLANTS
Date: 6 Apr 1992 17:35:49 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
Distribution: na
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Hi..
I am looking for some information on Cochlea Implants ..If you know of
any profs working in this area please let me know their
addresses(univs)..
Thanx
Chetan Sharma
From: ieeu0026@cs.montana.edu (Blaine Kubesh)
Newsgroups: sci.engr.biomed
Subject: How does pulse oximeter work??
Date: 10 Apr 92 22:37:38 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Dept. of Computer Science, Bozeman MT 59717


I am building for a design project an infant monitor. The monitor will
be driven using a Motorola 68HC11 mocrocontroller. I need to sense
three vitals.. 
	1)	Heart rate
	2)	blood SaO2
	3)	Respiration rate

I understand that i can use a pulse oximeter to get good readings of HR 
and SaO2. I believe for a finger probe they use a red (600 or 640nm if forget 
which) LED and a IR LED at 820nm. I think that the 820nm wavelength is
the wavelength that coresponds to what the oxyhemoglobin in the blood
absorbes. So opposite the LED I can put a matched sensor and get a reading.

The HR can be picked up from the oximeter by measuring the intervals between
the peaks of the readings of SaO2.. as far as i can tell.

The respiration rate is the one i do not fully understand yet. I have heard of 
using some form of inductance sensor but I am not sure exactly how it works.
There is also something called an inductance phlesmigraph (spelling?) which.

Does anybody know how these things work exactly????  
if so please let me know... 
-- 
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Blaine Kubesh  --->>	ieeu0026@amin.ee.montana.edu
MSU, Bozeman Montana    Electrical Engineering  
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From: gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston)
Newsgroups: sci.engr,sci.edu,misc.education,sci.engr.biomed,sci.engr.chem
Subject: Re: Foreign Students / Faculty
Date: 12 Apr 92 00:22:58 GMT
Reply-To: gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston)
Organization: Field Robotics Center, CMU

Slight change of topic, but...
The reason that many American students now fel the need to go on to
graduate school is because of the failing of our secondary school and
undergraduate institutions to provide a basic, sound education.  As it
stands, the first two years of undergraduate work (well, maybe I
exaggerate a trifle), are really high school level work, needed to
bring everyone up to par.

--
Gerry Roston (gerry@cmu.edu)    | The most foolish mistake we could possibly
Field Robotics Center,          | make would be to allow the subjected people
Carnegie Mellon University      | to carry arms, history shows that all
Pittsburgh, PA, 15213           | conquerors who have allowed their subjected
(412) 268-3856                  | peoples to carry arms have prepared their own
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From: zentner@cstr.ecn.purdue.edu (Mike Zentner)
Newsgroups: sci.engr,sci.edu,misc.education,sci.engr.biomed,sci.engr.chem
Subject: Re: Foreign Students / Faculty
Date: 10 Apr 92 18:33:30 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <GERRY.92Apr10111557@onion.cmu.edu> gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) writes:
>A follow up:
>
>It has gotten to a point, for me, that if a person can not express
>themselves clearly, then I don't care what they are saying.  Trying to
>decipher some of the very thick accents around this place takes to
>much effort, and the point being made it typically lost in the effort

Then you may as well never have listened to Einstein because of his
accent, etc...  Listen, there are even people in the US who have lived
their whole lives here that you would not understand.  Take someone
from the deeps of Louisiana, or Georgia, Texas, or the inner cities for
that matter.  They're even American...but their opinion does not count
with you?  Then I feel sorry for you.  (and I should include that folks
from southern areas might just as well not understand a New Yorker,
etc...).

>to understand.  While I have nothing against foreign students, I
>believe that the TOEFL exam should be made harder and should require a
>spoken portion.

Amen.

>The only reason that many of us can understand our
>foreign colleagues is because of many years of practice.

I think it's worth taking the time to understand an accent.  An accent
does not equal butchery of the language.  A person can be grammatically
understandable and still have an accent.  To think that for the rest of
your life you are only going to have to understand Peter Jennings
version of the english accent is to acknowledge that you're as
complacent as those  Americans with no work ethic to which you referred
earlier.

--
Mike Zentner
Purdue University, CHME Building       zentner@ecn.purdue.edu
West Lafayette, IN 47907               pur-ee!zentner
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