Recent information suggests that the mexican hispanic popu- lation in the united states is at high risk for coronary heart disease, diabetes mellitus, and some site-specific forms of cancer. other data indicate that sociocultural factors may play a primary role in determining the health status of… More

Visualization of both bony and soft-tissue structures generated from serial sections produced by computed tomography (ct) and magnetic resonance (mr) is an important tool now employed to improve orthopedic surgery and many other medical procedures, including both diagnostic and surgical.… More

Kensal consulting is a small business in arizona which has just been awarded a united states patent (no: 4,641,351) dated february 3, 1987 entitled logical transform image processor. the architecture of this patented processor is based on a novel concept in three-dimensional cellular logic. the… More

During the 1984-1990 academia, carnegie mellon university and the university of southern california, using the $180,000 coulter biomedical research robot microscope, the diff3/50, interfaced to a $80,000 interdata model 3230 computer, conducted research under a series of nih grants cumulatively… More

This project addresses microscopic instrumentation techniques related to the engineering and physical sciences under the biophysics and physiological sciences program. the submitting organization is kensal consulting, a small electrooptical business in tucson, arizona, that has invented and patented… More

Today, there are more military casualties due to disease than to battlefield injuries. Often, however, due to inadequate medical staff in small or remote medical hospitals, these disease-related casualties are improperly treated before return of the patients to the Zone of the Interior. In cases… More