Microscopic brain imaging in the palm of your hand
...e to the deep tissues of the brain. By creating a handheld device based on some of the latest advances in mic...nto several of those options. "This is a portable handheld device with the power of two-photon imaging -- the full functionality of a microscope that fits in t...Quantum cascade lasers key to handheld gas and liquid sensors
...nications, have built and demonstrated a prototype handheld gas phase chemical sensing device and a liquid phase sensing device. The details appear in the July 15, 2005 issue of Analytical Chemistry and the May 9, 2005 issue of Applied Physics Letters. The quantum cascade laser is the key to scaling down midi...Towards a cheap and easy way to monitor HIV/AIDS
...al to inform treatment decisions. A fully portable handheld model is now under development. After some modest training, such a tool should allow a variety of health care workers in remote areas to accurately analyze the CD4 status of HIV infected patients locally. In an accompanying Perspective article, Zvi...... women's heels. The researchers hope the low-cost, handheld device could be used by primary care physicians globally, including in the developing world, to routinely test the bone health of patients. (1pBB11). Monitoring the healing of a bone fracture is one of the more difficult things for physicians to det...