Center for Biomedical Technology Innovation

Founded: 1996
Full Time: 5
Part Time: 2
Budget:

Director: Micahel Torma, M.D.
1505 Kings Highway, P.O. Box 38050
Shreveport, LA 71103

Telephone: 318/675-4100 FAX: 318/675-4120 E-Mail: mtorma@biomed.org

Research Areas:

Mission

The Center for Biomedical Technology Innovation (CBTI) facilitates the development and testing of clinically focused – diagnostic and therapeutic – medical & biomedical prototypes.

CBTI maintains a broad range of interests:

medical information systems
advanced imaging and fusion techniques
new energy applications
medical robotics

Areas of Expertise:Areas of application include telemedicine, teleoperation, electronic medical records and data integration, 3-D and virtual reality simulation and minimally invasive surgery instrumentation.

Ongoing Projects

CBTI is partnered with Advanced Diagnostics, Inc. of Richland, Washington. Clinical trials on the company's ultrasonic holographic imager, a machine capable of real-time, 3-D imaging, will be conducted in Shreveport hospitals under the supervision of CBTI.
CBTI is partnered with Computer Motion, Inc. of Santa Barbara, California. The company's voice-activated AESOP laparoscopic control device is being used in Shreveport operating rooms for clinical cost-effectiveness validation. A phase two project, called Hermes, will help develop an array of voice-activated operating room devices.
CBTI manages the Scibermed Virtual Institute. This is an outgrowth of the National Technology Roadmap in Healthcare exercise held in 1995 at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The exercise established a need for an information clearinghouse for scientists, engineers and clinicians to bridge the gap between medical disciplines and to streamline innovative technologic healthcare solutions. Scibermed Virtual Institute—located at -- is an Internet website workplace intended to meet that need.
CBTI is working with faculty from LSU State University School of Medicine in Shreveport and Centenary College of Louisiana to produce a proof-of-science device capable of directly and non-invasively imaging organ perfusion, using improved, near-infrared laser technology.
CBTI is working with Shreveport-area physicians and Innova International to develop a new total knee replacement system and customized prosthetics.

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Keywords:

0609026 Medical Devices Engineering

0740083 Medical Devices

0706000 Biomedical Engineering

0706020 Clinical Engineering

0706030 Medical/Diagnostic Imaging

0710015 Bioengineering

0710030 Biotechnology

0735000 Instruments/Instrumentation/Devices (Health/Med)

0735020 Health/Medical Science – Computer Technology

0740070 Prosthetic Devices (General)