| TeleInVivo - Joint Project with the European Commission |
| 3D Ultrasound Telemedical Workstation |
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Kazakhstan, Uganda, Portugal and the Canary Islands.
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| Date/Duration |
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1 July 1998 - 1 July 2000
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| Project Description |
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The aim of this project is to set-up a transportable telemedicine workstation (PC plus telecommunication capabilities) connected to a light, portable ultrasound station and use it as a telemedical device in isolated areas such as islands, rural areas and crisis situations. The system proposed is of low price, low weight, is transportable, non-radiating, and supports a very large range of applications varying from gynecology and abdominal scans to radiology.
The technical principle consists of an integrated workstation containing a portable ultrasound device, and computing and telecommunication capabilities. The workstation will be able to collect 3-dimensional ultrasound data from the patient, i.e. to perform a "echo-tomography". The doctor in the field will scan the corresponding part of the patient. By means of the built-in flexible telecommunication channel (phoneline, ISDN, Internet, Satellite) the acquired 3D-dataset will be transferred to the remote expert, who can be working anywhere in the world. After data transmission both experts will be linked on-line over the telecommunication channel performing "virtual echography" on the 3D-data replicated in each site and viewing the identical images on the screen with no time lag despite going through narrow-band telecommunication channels.
The workstation and a portable device will be tested in different socio-economic conditions (Uganda, Kazakhstan, etc) and will be adjusted accordingly to meet needs of developing countries and countries in transition.
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| Mission Reports |
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UNESCO Report "Specification of the user needs and methodology of the TeleInViVo trials" (download as a ZIP file 740kb) (updated 12.05.99)
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| Budget Details |
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1,425,139 ECU
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| Contact Name in the Field |
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Stefan Walter,
Cognitive computing and Medical Imaging,
Dipl.-Inform.
Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics,
Rundeturmsra
e 6,
D-64283 Darmstadt,
Germany.
Telephone: +49 (0) 61 51 155 486
Fax: +49 (0) 61 51 155 499
E-mail: walter@igd.fhg.de
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| How to Participate |
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To participate you should contact the institutions where TeleInViVo projects are established and where doctors, who have already been trained, will be able to discuss and share experiences and knowledge. The Central Asian Health Care Clearing House (HCCH) at the Regional Diagnostics and Consultation Centre in Almaty is one such example (see KATELCO Web Site below).
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| Project's Website |
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http://www.igd.fhg.de/teleinvivo/
http://www.katelco.com/UNESCO/denema_en.html#focus
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| | | Contact: René Cluzel Information and Informatics Division |
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