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Freescale Medical Applications - Diagnostics,

Therapy and Imaging
By Ionela
Created Mar 17 2009 - 07:03

Freescale thinks of your health with medical applications in diagnostics, therapy and medical imaging.

Home Portable Medical [1]

The home portable medical market is one of the fastest growing market segments in the medical devices
industry. The consumer population is more healthconscious than ever before, and that is reflected in the
devices that are now common in the home, including portable heart rate monitors, blood pressure
monitors, digital thermometers, electronic blood glucose monitors and scales that measure body fat.

As clinicians look for new ways to monitor patients under natural circumstances, new telehealth devices
are being invented.
All of these portable home healthcare gadgets share the common need for long battery life, robust data
processing and a wired or wireless communication interface. Freescale?s microcontrollers offer the perfect
mix of high processing capabilities and low power consumption. Furthermore, as a pioneer in the
communications market, Freescale offers solutions for wired and wireless interfaces, including USB,
802.15.4 and ZigBee technology. Freescale microelectromechanical system (MEMS)-based pressure and
inertial sensors can be used in the acquisition of physical parameters. User interfaces embedded with
proximity sensors enable medical friendly buttons and touch screens that can be sanitized quickly and
easily.

Diagnostics and Therapy [2]

Reliability and accuracy are key considerations for diagnostics and therapy devices. These devices are
used in health critical situations in which physiological events need to be recognized quickly and
addressed appropriately. Whether a physical therapist is using a high-tech stationary bicycle to help a
patient undergoing physical rehabilitation, or an electrocardiogram is monitoring the heartbeat profiles of
patients after surgery, these devices need a CPU core that is powerful enough to acquire, process and
interpret several parameters at once.

Freescale?s 32-bit processors do all of this and more.

Diagnostic or therapeutic medical devices can be positioned for the home or clinical market. Freescale?s
Controller Continuum enables development on an 8-bit platform for simple home devices, which can then
be upgraded to 32-bit platforms as new application needs arise for the clinical market. The Controller
Continuum serves as a powerful resource for building fully integrated, scalable medical solutions for the
home or the clinic.

Medical Imaging [3]

The complexities of medical imaging require extraordinary processing and RF power. Modalities, such as
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT) scans and ultrasound, all push
performance limits for advanced, integrated I/O, rigorous data processing, powerful display capabilities and
high levels of connectivity. All of these needs are addressed by Freescale?s family of Power Architecture
multicore processors and RF amplifiers.

The Power Architecture family is designed for applications that require a rich user interface with complex
displays and connectivity options with various standard protocols.

Intelligent Hospitals [4]

The connected hospital is the wave of the future. With the increasing acceptance of technology in the
medical market, administrators are open to infusing that technology into hospitals to help increase the
quality of service. Freescale?s i.MX application processors are ideal for health care providers that require
lower cost medical devices with unintrusive patient monitoring and interaction. The high-performance i.MX
portfolio provides low power consumption, rich graphical user interface, support for multimedia features
and multiple connectivity options. i.MX processor solutions enable powerful graphical display interfaces
allowing users to collect patient information and transfer it seamlessly from the device to the main unit.

Read the Italian version: Applicazioni mediche da Freescale - Diagnostica, Terapia ed Imaging [5]

CONTACT REQUEST
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this form [6].

NOTE: this form is valid ONLY for Companies or Customers based in Italy and working in the Italian area.

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Links:
[1] http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/overview.jsp?code=VMHOMEPORTABLE&tid=fMdllp
[2] http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/overview.jsp?code=VMDIAGTHERAPY&tid=fMdllp
[3] http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/overview.jsp?code=VMIMAGING&tid=fMdllp
[4] http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/overview.jsp?code=VMINTHOSPITAL&tid=fMdllp
[5] http://it.emcelettronica.com/applicazioni-mediche-da-freescale-diagnostica-terapia-ed-imaging
[6] http://it.emcelettronica.com/contact/freescale