<div class="page photo" style=""> <article> <header style=" background-image:url(/imageLibrary/7K0A0664_3056.JPG); "> <div class="box"> <div class="intro" style="color: #ff7f2a;"> <h1 style="color: #ff7f2a !important;">What's New</h1> <p class="summary"></p> </div> </div> </header> <div class="main"> <div class="container"> <p class="byline"> </p> <p><img src="/uploads/548a3e5560b12_3056.JPG" unselectable="on"></p><h4></h4><h4></h4><h4><a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/minority-report-tech-meets-the-operating-room" target="_blank">"Minority Report" Tech Meets the Operating Room</a> </h4><p>Mar 21, 2016&nbsp; by Jeremy Hsu</p><p><img src="/uploads/56f796afe8580.png" unselectable="on"></p><p>Photo : Ben J. Park / Asan Medical Center</p><p>Technology showcased in the movie <em>Minority Report</em>, which enabled Tom Cruise to swipe through midair images in the 2002 film, could soon become a staple of hospital operating rooms. A new <a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/gadgets/electricfield-gesture-interface-gets-users-hands-off-their-gadgets">gesture-controlled computer interface</a> aims to give surgeons easier access to medical images during marathon surgical operations.</p><p>The experimental medical system takes advantage of <a href="http://www.leapmotion.com/">Leap Motion controllers</a> that can sense and track people’s hand gestures. South Korean researchers developed their own “GestureHook” software that can translate the gestures captured by a Leap Motion device into commands for several different types of medical software.</p><p>“We thought that using gestures as a new interface for controlling software in hospitals would provide access to computers for surgeons during procedures,” says Ben Joonyeon Park, a software developer on the Medical Information Development Team at the <a href="http://eng.amc.seoul.kr/asan/lang/eng/main.do">Asan Medical Center</a> in Seoul, South Korea. Manipulating software programs this way, says Park, will let surgeons view 2-D or 3-D images of patients’ body parts without relying on assistants or dirtying their hands by touching a mouse or keyboard.</p><p><a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/minority-report-tech-meets-the-operating-room" target="_blank">Read more</a></p><p><img src="/uploads/54ad19735dcd3_3056.jpg" unselectable="on"></p><h4></h4><h4></h4><h4></h4><h4></h4><h4></h4><h4></h4><h4></h4><h4></h4><h4></h4><h4></h4><h4></h4><h4></h4><h4><a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/biomedical/devices/siliconbased-sensors-slip-into-the-brain-then-dissolve-when-their-jobs-are-done" target="_blank">Sensors Slip into the Brain, Then Dissolve When the Job Is Done</a> </h4><p>posted&nbsp;18 Jan 2016 by Tekla S. Perry</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p>Five days. That’s how long intracranial pressure and temperature typically need to be monitored in the case of traumatic brain injury. And that’s at least how long flexible, dissolvable sensors created by a research team at the University of Illinois led by professor John Rogers will operate accurately.</p><p>I met <a href="http://rogers.matse.illinois.edu/">Rogers</a> a year ago, interested in the <a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/devices/a-temporary-tattoo-that-senses-through-your-skin">temporary tattoos and other flexible electronics patches</a> he’d been developing that were designed to be so similar to the skin that you could wear them for days without noticing them. Though the majority of his scientists and engineers were involved in making sensors and transmitters as stretchable as his lab’s serpentine silicon circuits, Rogers clearly had his eye on the horizon. In particular, he was after electronics structures that could be implanted seamlessly in the brain or on or around other organs. These sensing, communicating devices would need to have new geometries and new properties to fit in with the complex structures of the body without compromising them. [For the full story see “<a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/devices/a-temporary-tattoo-that-senses-through-your-skin">A Temporary Tattoo That Senses Through Your Skin</a>”.]</p><p><img src="/uploads/56f798b62a58b.png" unselectable="on"></p><p>Photo : John Rogers / University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</p><p>Today, <a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/John Rogers">Rogers</a> released news of his latest breakthrough in silicon biocompatible circuitry: pressure and temperature monitors, intended to be implanted in the brain, that completely dissolve within a few weeks. The news, published as a research letter in the journal <em><a href="http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nature16492">Nature</a></em>, described a demonstration of the devices in rats, using soluble wires to transmit the signals, as well as the demonstration of a wireless version, though the data transmission circuit, at this point, is not completely resorbable.</p><p>The technology, the <em>Nature</em> letter reports, can be adapted to sense fluid flow, motion, pH, and other parameters, and could be implanted in the heart, other organs, or in the skin.</p><p><a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/biomedical/devices/siliconbased-sensors-slip-into-the-brain-then-dissolve-when-their-jobs-are-done" target="_blank">Read more</a></p><h4></h4><h4></h4> </div> </div> </article> </div><!-- /page-->