MacBook Pro Ultrasound Machine

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Siemens has heavily modified the MacBook Pro for doctors on the move. The “Acuson P50″ is especially designed for mobile applications in cardiology as well as vascular applications and use in the operating room and anesthesiology departments.

The P50 can be used as a standard Internet-enabled PC that also runs common office applications. With an array of transducers, the system lets physicians bring ultrasound anywhere it is needed.

The Acuson P50 runs Windows and is loaded with Microsoft Office special image viewing apps. The system provides for excellent ultrasound images and gives users a number of tools for image post-processing, for generating protocols or for accessing the Internet for additional research. During the examination, the physician is able to view other images, look at technical papers or clarify abnormalities before he making a diagnosis.

The P50 is built off of an Apple MacBook laptop with 2 GB RAM, a 160 GB hard disk and a 2.0GHz Intel Dual-Core Pentium M processor.

It’s cool to see a MacBook Pro being used in a such a novel way, but I think the MacBook Pro is the wrong notebook for the job. Siemens should have chosen a more durable computer for the operating room. Siemens claims the setup can get up to two hours of battery life, which is pretty low.

via Engadget

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