Data acquisition for medical devices

Following the path of the powerful evolution in many fields, engineering and medicine are converging to a healthy collaboration. Engineering, as a profession, is a practising one, and it is based on modifying and harnessing the three fundamental resources of the known world: information, energy and materials. Delivering solutions using the latest technologies and also trying to innovate for a better world, the continuous advancement of methods and many other improvements are focusing on helping and developing new ways to have better results. Medicine, with its many fields, is going hand in hand with this exponential growth. One method used in engineering to study and characterize different processes or phenomena is the acquisition and digital processing of data. With the development of computational techniques, it became possible to capture biological data, radiography and tomography being two examples that allow the reconstruction of images that are useful for diagnosis and establishment of treatment. In the following paper, methods known in the industry are presented and related to different procedures used in this collaboration between engineering and medicine.