Theme for Project with Arduino for Master's Degree Thesis

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Hello everyone.
I am new here on this blog and in general I am new with Arduino.
I am currently a postgraduate student at Medical Informatics at the University of Athens, Greece and I am looking for a project on Robotics in general but there is nothing serious taking place on this subject.
I have found a guy who suggested using Arduino for my thesis but nothng specific.

Noes anyone has any specific idea about projects using Arduino in Medical Instruments?

Thank you very much

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Well, after you get past this part: "Atmel products are not intended, authorized, or warranted for use as components in applications intended to support or sustain life." maybe some uses could come in for controlling positioning of equipment, remote monitoring of internal devices, analysis of monitoring, automated drug dispensing delivery and control, lighting control, alarm generation on equipment failure, ...

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Thank you very much for your reply.

I have two questions:
1)Would any of these contribute in the general improvement of science?What I mean is if any of the suggested themes is innovative.
2)Can these applications be applied in e.g a computed tomographer or MRI?

Thanks again

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  1. They'd all be innovative for me. Not sure how much innovation you can get with an 8-bit microcontroller with limited memory in the much larger medical field. I'm not up to speed on what's happening these days.

  2. I have no idea how those work, outside of watching low level laser alignment beams scanning across a body on TV.

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Thank you very much for your reply.
It was very useful

I appreciate it.

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How about a robot arm to give bulk inoculations with a hypodermic?- you know like in the clinic at school or in the military there are long lines of folk and a medic gives injection after injection after injection all day long.

That could be an interesting mix if some kind of "vision" to detect the spot on the arm or the bum (different sizes and shapes of people, even different skin hues), and mechanical control of the gross movement of the needle to the right spot and then fine control of the plunger. Then safe removal. Apply wipe before and band-aid after... Fill the syringe too even, with the "tap" we've all seen on tv to get the air out... more computer vision there.

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The medical supply companies probably have developed the high profit devices for hospitals and such. Perhaps something more patient centered might have possibilities, such as a voice activated TV remote control or other patient convenience related devices.

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Hi guys.
Thank you both for your suggestions.
As far as the robotic arm for injection this would be awesome but I don't think there is the right infrastructure ere in Greece for such programs, unfortunately.
As far as the remote control there iht be a possibility.
Tha good thing is that there is the 1st Greek Robot convention taking place in 2 weeks, so I am going to throw all these ideas on the table and see what is possible.

Thank you guys both of you.
You are being very helpful

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While studying I worked in the kitchen of a hospital. Every now and then some patients (very young/old) would leave their rooms, without telling where they were going. That sometimes resulted in a lot of searching. A system to keep track of such patients ?