Tele-Echography Activities
The tele-echography technology developed in collaboration with ESA enables an ultrasound specialist to perform a diagnostic on a patient from a remote hospital. Isolated areas or mobile contexts, such as boats, usually do not have access to echography examination because of the cost of equipment and the necessity for a specialist to be on site.
Project evolution steps:
- Development and Validation
- Use in Concordia
- Demonstration of a complete tele-echography solution
- Flight on the ISS
Goals / Description:
To develop a robotic tele-manipulation system enabling a medical expert to remotely perform ultrasound examinations on a patient in the International Space Station (ISS) or in isolated contexts on earth.
Status of project steps:
- Validation campaign in French Guiana & on a sea vessel to evaluate telemedicine services based on the technology - completed
- Research campaign at the Antarctic Station Concordia to evaluate the technology in extreme operational conditions analogous to a space mission - upcoming
- Demonstration and Validation of a complete Tele-Echography Solution (i.e. infrastructure for service) - in progress
- Experimentation on the ISS - planned
Start date:
The latest phase of this series of project development, ARTIS, commences in January 2008
Funding
ESA Microgravity Applications Programme (MAP), Exploration programme, General Studies Programme (GSP), European Commission FP6
Prime: MEDES (F)
ESA contacts:
Didier Schmitt(Project Leader) - didier.schmitt @ esa.int
Inter-Directorate Task Force (DG-F)
