Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers

Tools and Technology

Tools Include:

• Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI scanners (3T scanners)
• Accelerometers
• Acoustic sensors (Acoustic measurement systems)
• Modulators (Acousto-optic modulators)
• Physiological recorders (Activity monitoring devices)
• Thickness measuring devices (Anthropometers)
• Wave generators (Arbitrary waveform generators)
• Physiological recorders (Axial-torsional testing systems)
• Bacteria transformation kits (Bacteria-based biosensors)
• Microcontrollers (Basic stamp microcontrollers)
• Biometric identification equipment (Bio-sensors)
• Amplifiers (Bio-signal amplifiers)
• Frequency calibrator or simulator (Bio-signal simulators)
• Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI scanners (Biomagnetic imaging scanners)
• Electrometers (Biomedical device electrical safety testers)
• Tissue culture incubators (Bioreactors)
• HEPA filtered enclosures (Biosafety cabinets)
• Fatigue testers (Cardiovascular prosthetic device testers)
• Benchtop centrifuges (Centrifuges)
• Circuit tester (Circuit analyzers)
• Viscosimeters (Cone-plate viscometers)
• Cardiac pacemaker generators or implantable defibrillators or accessories (Defibrillator testing devices)
• Deflecting devices (Deflectors)
• Desktop computers
• Sonometers (Digital sonomicrometers)
• Dissolved oxygen meters (Dissolved oxygen polarographic measurement devices)
• Dynamometers
• Proton spectrometers (Electrical particle detectors)
• pH electrodes (Electrode bevelers)
• pH electrodes (Electrode pullers)
• Electroencephalography EEG units or accessories (Electroencephalography EEG equipment)
• Electromyography EMG units or accessories (Electromyographs)
• pH electrodes (Electroplating apparatus)
• Electrometers (Electrosurgery testing devices)
• Endoscope maintenance units or accessories (Endovascular stent-graft testing instruments)
• Pressure indicators (Environmental conditions measurement devices)
• Camera based vision systems for automated data collection (Eye tracking devices)
• Flexure or transverse testing machines (Finger joint flexure testers)
• Flow injection analysis equipment (Flow control devices)
• Fluorescent microscopes (Fluorescence microscopes)
• Pressure indicators (Footswitch sensors)
• Pressure indicators (Force platforms)
• Infrared spectrometers (Fourier transform infrared FTIR spectrometers)
• Radio frequency RF switches (Frequency shifters)
• Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI scanners (Functional magnetic resonance imaging fMRI scanners)
• Gas or vapour concentration measuring instruments (Gas flow control systems)
• Glass injection moldings (Glass micromolds)
• Neuromuscular stimulators or kits (Grass stimulators)
• Pressure indicators (Grip dynamometers)
• Hardness testers (Hardness testing devices)
• Digital cameras (High-speed digital cameras)
• Immunology or serology quality controls or calibrators or standards (Immuno-sensors)
• Impact testers
• Electrometers (Incubator performance analyzers)
• Forced air or mechanical convection general purpose incubators (Incubators)
• Pressure indicators (Insole sensors)
• Electrometers (Intravenous IV pump analyzers)
• Isolators
• Notebook computers (Laptop computers)
• Laser cutting tools (Laser ablation machines)
• Electronic loads (Load sensors)
• Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI scanners (Magnetic resonance imaging MRI systems)
• Computed tomography CT or CAT radiotherapy simulators (Maskless photolithography equipment)
• Fatigue testers (Material fatigue and dynamics characterization devices)
• Compression testers (Material tension/compression testing devices)
• Medical radiation dosimeters
• Microcontrollers
• pH electrodes (Microelectrodes)
• Microscopic structure estimation apparatus (Microfluidic networks)
• Transmission electron microscopes (Micromanipulation microrheology microscopes)
• Plastic injection moldings (Micromolding lithography equipment)
• Microplate readers
• Microplate washers
• Microplates (Microplating equipment)
• Drug delivery systems or accessories (Micropumps)
• Drug delivery systems or accessories (Microvalves)
• Milling machines
• Hemacytometer sets (Molecular cytosensors)
• Laboratory vacuum pumps (Molecular vacuum pumps)
• Electronic actuators (Motion actuators)
• Flexure or transverse testing machines (Multi-axis kinematic knee simulators)
• Scanning electron microscopes (Multi-photon microscopes)
• Multimeters
• Medical computed tomography CT or CAT contrast agent injectors (Nanoshells)
• Electrometers (Non-invasive blood pressure monitor analyzers)
• Medical computed tomography CT or CAT scanners or tubes (Optical coherence tomography OCT scanners)
• Spectrophotometers (Optical particle detectors)
• Medical computed tomography CT or CAT scanners or tubes (Optical tomographic imaging scanners)
• Tweezers (Optical traps)
• Physiological recorders (Opto-electronic electrogoniometers)
• Oscilloscopes
• Cardiac pacemaker generators or implantable defibrillators or accessories (Pacemaker analyzers)
• Cardiac pacemaker generators or implantable defibrillators or accessories (Pacemaker testing devices)
• Physiological recorders (Patient monitoring testing devices)
• Piezo electric crystals (Piezoelectric ceramic transducers)
• Piezo electric crystals (Piezoelectric sensors)
• Pressure indicators (Pinch gauges)
• Inductively coupled plasma ICP spectrometers (Plasma excitation chambers)
• Plastic injection molds (Plastic injection molding machines)
• Physiological recorders (Polygraph recorders)
• Tissue culture coated plates or dishes or inserts (Polymer matrices)
• Tissue culture coated plates or dishes or inserts (Polymer scaffolds)
• Rapid amplification or complementary deoxyribonucleic acid ends RACE technology products (Polymerase chain reaction PCR equipment)
• Medical positron emission tomography PET units (Positron emission tomography PET scanners)
• Pressure indicators (Posturographic measurement systems)
• Electrometers (Pressure and temperature measurement devices)
• Pressure sensors
• Electro pneumatic transducers (Pressure transducers)
• Tension testers (Prosthetic limb testers)
• Surface tension measuring instruments (Pulsating bubble surfactometers PBS)
• Pulse oximeter units (Pulse oximeters)
• Q Meters (Quantum-based switching applications Q-switch electron waveguides)
• Medical radiation dosimeters (Radiation compliance testing devices)
• Amplifiers (Radio frequency amplifiers)
• Bacteria transformation kits (Rapid toxicity testing systems)
• Scanning probe microscopes (Scanning probe microscopes SPM)
• Pneumatic actuators (Servopneumatic actuators)
• Fatigue testers (Servopneumatic axial test instruments)
• Medical single photon emission computed tomography SPECT units (Single photon emission computed tomography SPECT scanners)
• Skinfold calipers
• Tissue culture apparatus (Soft materials in-vitro simulation system)
• Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters (Spectrofluorimeters)
• Wear testers (Spinal disk implant wear testers)
• Flexure or transverse testing machines (Spine simulators)
• Spirometers or its accessories or its supplies (Spirometers)
• Sterilization sets (Sterilization-in-place equipment)
• Force or torque sensors (Strain gauge conditioners)
• Strain gauges
• Dye sublimination printers (Sublimation printers)
• Magnetometers (Superconducting quantum interference devices SQUID)
• Physiological recorders (Torsiometers)
• Treadmills
• Physiological recorders (Two-point discriminators)
• Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI scanners (Ultra high speed magnetic resonance imaging MRI scanner machines)
• Medical ultrasound or doppler or pulse echo or echography units for general diagnostic use (Ultrasonic testing apparatus)
• Medical ultrasound or doppler or pulse echo or echography units for general diagnostic use (Ultrasound imaging scanners)
• Medical ultrasound or doppler or echo probes (Ultrasound indention probes)
• Medical ultrasound or doppler or echo transducers or accessories (Ultrasound transducers)
• Wattmeters (Ultrasound wattmeters)
• Electrometers (Ventilator performance analyzers)
• X ray and fluoroscopy RF radiotherapy planning simulators (X ray lithography equipment)
• Medical x ray units for general diagnostic use (X ray machines)

Technologies Include:

• Analytical or scientific software

• Circuit simulation software
• ANSYS software
• BetaPLUS software
• Biomechanical modeling software
• Image analysis software
• Neural network modeling software
• Reliability centered maintenance RCM software
• Computational modeling software
• Calculating optimum maintenance parameters COMPARE software
• Calibration software
• Root cause analysis software
• Simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis SPICE
• Common cause failure assessment software
• Computational fluid dynamics CFD software
• SNOINO RCM Pro
• SNOINO Ttree
• Stochastic modeling software
• Criticality analysis software
• Motion analysis software
• Molecular simulation software
• Dyadem FMEA Pro-6
• Electromechanical testing analysis software
• Systems analysis programs for hands on integrated reliability evaluation software SAPHIRE
• Test automation software
• Embedded systems testing software
• The MathWorks MATLAB
• Mean time between failures MBTF software
• Failure mode and effects analysis FMEA software
• Failure rate data in perspective FARADIP software
• Three-dimensional motion capture software
• Fault modeling software
• Fault tree analysis FTA software
• Finite element method FEM software
• Force platform software
• Force sensitive applications FSA software
• Fourier transform infrared FTIR software
• Functional modeling software
• Laboratory information management system LIMS software
• Hierarchical simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis HSPICE
• Human modeling software
• Materials testing software
• Numerical analysis software
• Preventive maintenance software
• Stratasys FDM MedModeler
• Wolfram Research Mathematica

• Charting software

• Charting software

• Compliance software

• Equipment compliance testing software

• Computer aided design CAD software

• Cadence Allegro Design Entry software
• Zuken software
• Cadence Encounter Test
• Computer aided design CAD software
• Mento Graphics software
• Electronic design automation EDA software
• SolidWorks CAD software
• PTC Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire
• Schematic design entry software
• Mathsoft Mathcad
• OrCAD Capture
• ViewLogic software

• Computer aided manufacturing CAM software

• Computer aided manufacturing CAM software
• Rapid prototyping software

• Configuration management software

• IBM Rational ClearCase

• Data base user interface and query software

• Failure rate database software

• Development environment software

• C
• Hardware description language HDL
• IBM Rational ClearQuest
• Verilog
• Advanced computer simulation language ACSL
• National Instruments LabVIEW

• Enterprise application integration software

• Extensible markup language XML
• Rapid application development RAD software

• Medical software

• Medical imaging software
• Medical information software
• Electromyograph analysis software
• Instrument control software
• Instrument validation software
• Virtual instrument software
• Gait analysis software

• Object or component oriented development software

• C++

• Pattern design software

• Diagramming software

• Presentation software

• Microsoft PowerPoint

• Program testing software

• Defect tracking software
• System testing software

• Project management software

• Microsoft Project
• Project estimation software

• Requirements analysis and system architecture software

• Requirements management software
• IBM Rational RequisitePro
• Unified modeling language UML

• Spreadsheet software

• Microsoft Excel

• Web platform development software

• JavaScript
• Hypertext markup language HTML

• Word processing software

• Microsoft Word

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