I've seen Doppler meters used to detect flow in pipes and this (I think)
was originally a medical application. Except the cheapest I could find
one
was two thousand dollars refurbished.
I'm wondering if ultrasound and laparoscopic techniques aren't (can't
be,
shouldn't be) used in building contruction (well, maintenance, repair). I
am
actually thinking about repairs to my own house, finding out what the
floor
is underneath the tiles, finding out what condition the beams are in.
Maybe
you could even set up a capillary system to fix up beam rot with epoxy.
I know one chap who has a thermography system and he uses it to find
burial plots, building water leakage, heck, he even found part of a
building
where the workers went for lunch and when they came back forgot where they
left off and forgot some insulation. He paid myriads of dollars for it,
though, ev'tho it was used.
I'm thinking that if such devices were made for more mundane apps, the
cost could be brought down for medical as well as non-med uses. And it
would
be easier to start companies making such devices because while you are
waiting for all the regulations, you can actually sell something.
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Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus,
BioStrategist
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