Handheld scanners are smaller, portable versions of their desktop cousins. Like a flatbed scanners, they scan documents, drawings and other flat media, turning them into digital files you can store, ...

As technologies evolve, they typically tend to grow smaller and more convenient. The first computer occupied about 1,800 sf and weighed almost 50 tons. Now they can be carried with us everywhere. The ...

With advances in linear and 2-D imaging, handheld bar code scanners are finding more uses within the enterprise and giving laser scanners a run for their money. Integrated Solutions, November 2002 ...

A new hand-held scanner developed by UCL researchers can generate highly detailed 3D photoacoustic images in just seconds, paving the way for their use in a clinical setting for the first time and ...

Although there are various efforts under way to create a working Star Trek-like medical tricorder, such a device isn’t available for general use just yet. In the meantime, however, doctor’s offices ...

A new hand-held scanner developed by UCL researchers and tested in a series of clinical trials on UCLH patients can generate highly detailed 3D photoacoustic images in just seconds, paving the way for ...

With the introduction of portable ultrasound scanners, the medical imaging sector has seen a significant transformation recently. A new era of point-of-care diagnostics has begun with these portable ...

When most people think about an ultrasound, a hulking machine that gives doctors and parents views of a developing fetus typically comes to mind. But engineers are putting the technology—useful at ...

Researchers in the UK have developed a new handheld scanner which they hope will transform cancer and arthritis diagnosis. The device can generate highly detailed 3D images in just seconds, paving the ...

Scientists have developed a new handheld ultrasound scanner which could help the NHS diagnose cancers in seconds. University College London said their device could transform NHS cancer and arthritis ...