Query: Development of medical imaging equipment

title: Energy Consumption Profiles of Common Types of Medical Imaging Equipment in Clinical Settings
abstract: Imaging equipment such as MRIs, CT scanners and general radiography equipment consume significant amounts of energy while operating. This study describes a series of detailed energy consumption studies on these devices during clinical use at three major health care centres in Canada, one in British Columbia and two in Ontario. The study was conducted by the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care [1] with funding provided by Natural Resources Canada  and BC Hydro  The primary goal of the study was to accelerate the development of ENERGY STAR specifications for medical imaging equipment. Natural Resources Canada is assisting the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA)  by collecting these data from the field. Eight testing events were undertaken, providing energy consumption data for low power energy modes, standby/idle power energy modes and active/patient scanning energy modes. Energy consumption was measured over periods ranging from three to eleven days, to provide rich information about when and how frequently the equipment was used and what the associated energy consumption profiles were. Data acquisition rates were varied to gain a detailed understanding of the temporal variations in energy consumption profiles during each use mode. Results from this study showed that there were variations in the low power mode energy consumption of greater than 25% in some cases, and that non scanning energy consumption, either low power or stand by modes, in some cases accounted for up to 80% of the total energy consumption of the system at some hospitals. These findings indicate that there is considerable scope for manufacturers to reduce the energy consumption levels of their devices, and for users to reduce energy consumption during clinical use through practices such as placing the system into a lower energy mode or shutting it down while not in use, where possible.

title: Medical Imaging Equipment Curriculum Development Based on Job and Workflow oriented
abstract: Medical imaging equipment is a main course vocational medical imaging technology major, and this subject has the characteristics of multi disciplinary, a wide range of equipment, complex structure and emphasis on polytechnic foundation. This paper carried out practice and research for the curriculum development and teaching reform, by the questionnaires and job skills analysis, based on workflow oriented, combined with vocational schooling and student characteristics, took the teaching means of multimedia teaching,situational teaching, case teaching, micro teaching lesson, etc. optimized the course content, highlighted the ability goal, took job tasks as a carrier, and ultimately improved student interest in learning and practical skills.

title: Development and prospect of medical molecular imaging equipment
abstract: The definition of molecular imaging and progress of molecular imaging equipment are introduced. The advantages and disadvantages of types of molecular imaging equipment are analyzed for clinical application, and it's concluded that multi function, multi discipline and multi technique will be involved in the prospect of molecular imaging equipment, that is, multi modal molecular imaging equipment will be dominant in the future.

title: Improvement of Medical Imaging Equipment Management in public hospitals of Bangladesh
abstract: This paper deals with the development of a standard Medical Imaging Equipment Management System (MIEMS) for public hospitals of Bangladesh. Medical imaging equipment management has become an important component of health services delivery in Bangladesh. But presently a proper equipment management set up does not exist in public hospitals and the overall diagnostic equipment condition in various departments is very poor. To find out the facts and reasons we visited fifteen medical imaging equipment departments in public hospitals of Bangladesh. From the data and results, a big percentage of the required management steps were found to be lacking. Based on the findings of the studies and with a view to improving the existing MIEMS we have proposed the improvement of medical imaging equipment management system for public hospitals in Bangladesh. During Study, we found the lack of Medical Imagining Equipment Management System in the Health Services of Bangladesh. The major findings are insufficient Biomedical Engineering team, negligible in house and central MIEMS, weak bridge between users and biomedical engineering team.

title: Improvement of In service Education and Training on Medical Imaging Equipment of Bangladesh
abstract: This paper deals with the development of standard In service Training and Education of Users and Maintenance personnel on Medical Imaging Equipment in the health services of Bangladesh. Users and Maintenance personnel of equipment should be trained to do routine simple maintenance on equipment. This will increase user care of equipment and cooperation with maintenance technicians to reduce equipment breakdowns. At the same time, this will promote the culture of equipment care and maintenance to improve the quality of health care. Proper use and maintenance of medical equipment are essential to obtain sustained benefits and to preserve capital investment. In service education and training have a direct impact on the quality of care. Various obstacles for expanding medical equipment use and maintenance capabilities in Bangladesh have been discussed. Proper operation and maintenance problems are complicated by the ever increasing use of medical imaging equipment as health care is modernized. To date, the operation and maintenance situation in Bangladesh are getting worse and requires special attention. Use and maintenance capabilities are considered during the initial stage of making a decision to acquire equipment. Proper use and maintenance problems can be minimized through in service training and education. The mission is to ensure that equipment used for patient care is safe, available, accurate, and affordable. In this paper, it has been described the problems and methodology to improve the existing in service training and education of users and maintenance personnel on MIE. In this study, we designed a framework of in service training and education of medical imaging equipment (MIE) uses and maintenance system used for in house clinical engineering department.

title: Resource Sharing of Medical Imaging Equipment in Radiology Department
abstract: Taking the construction and application of medical image equipment resources in our hospital as example,this paper discusses the development mode of applying DICOM standard,and expounds on the method of sharing network medical image equipment resources in LAN,thus to simplify the workflow,make full use of the resources and promote the efficiency of entire work.

title: Researching and Application of Virtual Simulation Teaching in Medical Imaging Equipment Teaching
abstract: In order to solve Medical Devices' disadvantages of abstract mechanism and high cost,the paper offered a virtual teaching system of Medical Devices.Taking WANGDAONG programmable X ray machine as example and Visual Basic 6.0 and Keil C51 as development platforms,the virtual operator is designed by using Personal Computer,and the rotating anode's starting and delay,warming up and exposure are stimulated in lower computer system.By offering vivid operation images,the system stimulates the working principle and operation process of programmable X ray machine,and achieves the perfect fusion of theoretical and experimental teaching.This scheme can be applied to other kinds of medical instruments.

title: Reflections on Teaching of Medical Imaging Equipment Science
abstract: The medical imaging equipment science is one of the rapidly development science in the medical domain. Based on the characteristics of Medical Imaging Equipment Science, this paper discusses the reflections from the aspects of teachers, teaching contents, teaching schemes and practice teaching.

title: Current Development of Mobile Magnetic Resonance Imaging Equipment
abstract: This paper summarized the development progress of mobile Magnetic Resonance Imaging( MRI) technology and equipment overseas,through consulting a number of references related. At present,no vehicular MRI equiment with a merit of lightweight and integration,which suits to harsh conditions of battlefield and disaster field,has been reported yet. Combined with actual situation of emergency medical relief tasks,problems with current mobile MRI and technological difficulties of developing vehicular MRI were hence analyzed.

title: Development of portable diagnostic imaging equipment
abstract: Portable diagnostic imaging equipment is a new direction of the development of medical diagnostic equipments.It will improve the health care,reduce its cost and might change the whole medical mode.