bmdo technologies for biomedical applications - MDA Technology

CHAPTER 1INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIESSome regard the information revolution as the most significantevent of the 20th century. Whether we are researchers, banktellers, insurance underwriters, supermarket cashiers, or stockbrokers,we deal with sometimes overwhelming quantities ofinformation. Those who study the education process have consistentlyfound that how information is presented is key to retainingfacts, organizing data, and consolidating important memories.Often, the combination of compelling visual display and pertinenttext, whether written or spoken, is highly successful in making along-term impression on the learner. Sometimes, visual display isthe only means of effectively conveying information. It takes farmore effort to outline in words the key sensory pathways in thebrain, or the distinguishing features of a malignant breast tumoron a mammogram, than to simply study the images and storethem as principally visual memories. Since these images do conveyso much information, it seems fitting that they would requirelarge amounts of memory for storage, and indeed they do. In addition,high-quality, high-resolution imaging requires very rapiddata transfer rates.THIS CHAPTER INCLUDES THE FOLLOWINGSECTIONS AND THEIR STORIES:Section A - Presentation3-D Picture in a CubeAstroTerra’s 3-D Volumetric DisplayAward-Winning High-Speed Optical ProcessorChip-Stacking Technology from Irvine Sensors & JPLSection B - Storage and TransmissionFiber-Optic Testbed at UCSD Under Way