If you have ever seen the heart of a baby pulsating away on the screen of an ultrasound scanner you will also have noticed how much the success of the scan depends on the skill -- or luck -- of the operator to jiggle the probe to get the best image and then measure a skull or a limb lurking somewhere in that confusion.
With this in mind, Professor Alison Noble is working to improve the image quality and diagnostic power of this most widely used of medical imaging tools through her Oxford University spinout, Intelligence Ultrasound.
By: Mark Piesing, Edited by: Olivia Solon
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-08/21/alison-noble-diagnostic-tools
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