Special Session 8:
Biomedical Electronics and Systems for Patient Diagnosis
ORGANIZERS
Ronny Veljanovski, CRC for Biomedical Imaging Development Ltd, Monash Centre for Synchrotron Science, Australia
SYNOPSIS
This special session will provide a series of presentations targeted towards patient diagnosis. The focus is on biomedical imaging applications such as X-Ray based computed tomography (CT) using hybrid pixel detector technology. The session aims to engage and intrigue its audience with the research and developments that the Monash Centre for Synchrotron Science (MCSS) and the Cooperative Research Centre for Biomedical Imaging Development (CRCBID) have produced over recent times which has led to advances in biomedical imaging.
The main issue with current X-ray detector systems is that image contrast can be poor with samples that contain soft tissue or similar elements of composition. The main objective is to provide increased contrasting images by means of obtaining in depth x-ray photon information such as counts and energy resolution at high speeds (up to 10^8), or, similar contrast at reduced radiation doses. Designing detectors to operate at such high speeds and provide the signal conditioning and energy resolution capabilities requires fast analog electronics, data conversion circuits and digital signal processing. The papers in this session address the many challenges in the detector domain and present their respective results.
In addition, this session will also present research and development in patient diagnosis by means of blood gas analysis. Blood Gases are used by medical physicians to determine the status of respiratory function in humans. Focus has been placed to reduce complexity in bio-signal processing with the aim of reducing power dissipation and therefore making portable blood gas analysers more efficient.
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