ROBOTIC TELE-DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM OF ECHOGRAPHY And Wireless Experiment for Mobile Telemedicine

We have experimented a tele-diagnosis system of echography to control the echographic diagnosis robot (EDR) which was developed in our laboratory. The examiner controlled it apart from the patient and obtained echogram of internal organs with the patient status image. The places of the examiner and the patient are connected by wireless network. Remote diagnosis of echogram was possible with sufficient image quality after a skilled examiner got used to control the robot. The robot was stable to slight body movement. The adult patient never felt any discomfort to the robot. Since required bandwidth of this system was at most 1Mbps, we confirmed the ability of this system for mobile robotic telemedicine. Keywords - tele-echography, medical robot, wireless network, mobile robotic telemedicine I. INTRODUCTION