Project Name:

Biomedical Image Processing device using laser illumination of tissue

Client:

Medical Device Startup

Product description:

This product uses laser illumination to get real time medical imaging of the sample.

Client's Testimony

"We've been very pleased with the way you and your team have supported us. We're glad you're here!"

Our responsibilities:

Kinetek assisted in taking the clinical trial version of the system hardware and software to market. Kinetek provided debugging, additional features, electronic re-design, documentation for the FDA and created test fixtures.

Key System Functions:

• The real time imaging processing software was written in C and Java and runs on Mandrake Linux.
• The GUI allows clinitians to view video of the sample in real time at 10 frames per second.
• RFID is used to ensure the integrity of disposables.
• The system allows sixty seconds of instant replay.
• It will save video to disk.
• It uses high pass, low pass and hex filters as well as single point offset correction based on a real time subtraction frame to remove background noise and artifacts from the video.
• The system contains custom circuit boards for powering touchscreens, driving the laser, splitting out DVI signals and interfacing to the RFID hardware and to the camera over LVDS.

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Development Details:

• Kinetek wrote Java and C code to address new feature requirements and fix bugs in the system.
• We designed electronics to create a power supply for the touchscreen monitors that leveraged the medical grade PC power supply in the device.
• We created a test fixture for simulating error conditions for use in validation.
• We also assisted in EMC mitigation.
• The device is based on a Pentium 4 platform.

Results:

The electronics and software portions of the system are validated for release for sale.