Location
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Columbia/ Enterprise Rooms
Start Date
26-4-1995 2:00 PM
End Date
26-4-1995 5:00 PM
Description
Maintaining the health and safety of the crews of spacecraft remain the highest priorities. Health monitoring requires at least two overlapping activities: (1) frequent or continuous monitoring of bodily functions to determine normalcy or deviation from normalcy, and (2) specific diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Thus, with a broad mandate and limited resources, the spacecraft must provide the diagnostic capabilities for quickly and accurately diagnosing a wide range of diseases. Optical devices, though still in the early developmental stages, diagnose diseases by analyzing and quantitating the spectra of metabolites and other substances non-invasively and without using chemical reagents. Once commercially available, optical devices will replace many clinical tests that use chemical reagents for diagnostics.
Paper Session II-B - Optical Diagnostics: Reagentless Chemistry for Extended Space Flights
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Columbia/ Enterprise Rooms
Maintaining the health and safety of the crews of spacecraft remain the highest priorities. Health monitoring requires at least two overlapping activities: (1) frequent or continuous monitoring of bodily functions to determine normalcy or deviation from normalcy, and (2) specific diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Thus, with a broad mandate and limited resources, the spacecraft must provide the diagnostic capabilities for quickly and accurately diagnosing a wide range of diseases. Optical devices, though still in the early developmental stages, diagnose diseases by analyzing and quantitating the spectra of metabolites and other substances non-invasively and without using chemical reagents. Once commercially available, optical devices will replace many clinical tests that use chemical reagents for diagnostics.
Comments
People Working in Space, the Needs and the Effects
Session Chairman: Wyck Hoffler, Deputy Director of Biomedical Operations and Research Office, Kennedy Space Center
Session Organizer: Rachel Webb