SUZANNE CALLANDER spoke to a professor of emergency medicine at the University of Leicester about the development of a non-invasive disease detection facility that is currently being trialled in the A&E department of Leicester Royal Infirmary.
The facility employs technology originally developed to play an important role in the ExoMars space mission.
Three different types of cutting-edge technology are now being used in combination to examine patients as part of a new hi-tech, non-invasive disease detection facility, developed at the University of Leicester. The Diagnostic Development Unit (DDU) is being used in Leicester Royal Infirmary’s A&E department to detect the ‘sight, smell and feel’ of disease without the use of invasive probes, blood tests, or other timeconsuming and uncomfortable procedures. One group of instruments, being used as part of the DDU, analyses gases present in a patient’s breath, another uses imaging systems and technologies to look for signs of disease via the surface of the human body, while the third uses a suite of monitors to look inside the body and measure blood-flow and oxygenation in real-time.
Space-age technology
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