Vibration Response Imaging
Vibration Response Imaging (VRI, in German: Imaging through vibration response ) is a new imaging method in human medicine .
Vibrations over the lungs caused by respiratory flow are detected by 40 active sensors , converted into digital images and make regional changes in lung ventilation recognizable. The VRI technology is to be used for lung function diagnostics and for decompensated myocardial insufficiency. The process is currently still in the experimental stage.
With this non-invasive procedure, in contrast to X-ray diagnostics, the patient is not exposed to any radiation dose .
It goes back to the Israeli scientists Yigal Kushnir and Meir Butbul.
literature
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