National Instruments has enjoyed a great deal of success working with the life sciences community over the years. From simply providing a high performance and open instrument control solution for automating multiple instruments and peripherals (GPIB) to high-accuracy and cost-effective measurement boards for chromatography or datalogging (DAQ). More recently, our FPGA and real-time embedded control products have been instrumental in the development of novel medical devices for cancer treatment and diagnostic applications. NI's high-performance and flexible I/O hardware coupled to the graphical programming and signal processing strengths of LabVIEW have made for a very natural application of these tools to the life and analytical sciences. However, none of the hardware or software was expressly designed for this community or these applications. Our vision products (frame grabbers, image processing and analysis software, etc. were really designed primarily for industrial imaging applications, but they have proven to be very powerful when applied to cellular imaging as well. Our PXI platform was really designed as a powerful and flexible automated electronics test platform - but it is currently used in a number of amazing biomedical applications including a magnetoencephalographic (MEG) system and commercial CT imaging system.
So...what if we were to design functions, features, or whole products for the biomedical industry? Are we missing key features or functionality that could further accelerate innovation in the life sciences, whether it be basic research, early functional prototypes of novel new systems, or rapid commercialization of proven ideas? I'd like to hear your ideas!
Steve
Maynimation
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Check out How-to documents for the new LabVIEW Biomedical Toolkit
ZJ.Gu
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Announcing the LabVIEW 2012 Biomedical Toolkit
Sundar...
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New LabVIEW drivers for low-cost EEG headsets
Coq_Rouge
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The NI licence policy exclude the "Touch Panel Module" from use in the medical segment
