Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley have developed a way to transmit medical images such as X-rays and ultrasounds via cellphones.
The technology involves reducing large, complicated medical images to six kilobytes (“A one sentence, text-only e-mail message is bigger than that,” one of the researchers commented in a university news release.) A cellphone transmits raw data to an offsite location. There the data is processed into an image and sent back to the cellphone’s screen. This technique is intended to bring sophisticated medical-imaging technology to developing countries, where expensive medical-imaging equipment is often out of reach.
The research was published in the April 30 issue of Public Library of Science’s PLoS ONE, a peer-reviewed, open-access journal. —Catherine Rampell
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