Hands-off Healing
To market, to market
An array of SilhouetteMobile devices awaiting assembly.
ARANZ Medical is a wholly owned subsidiary of research and development, and technology innovation company Applied Research Associates NZ Ltd (ARANZ), and is charged with taking the Silhouette suite of products to market.
The product range includes a software-only data management system called SilhouetteCentral. This processing unit typically receives information from one or more SilhouetteMobile units within an institution and acts as an interface between the units and the institution’s patient record system. The third product in the suite is SilhouetteDesktop, an application for reviewing and processing the images collected by SihouetteMobile devices.
The handheld device comprises a standard PocketPC and the SilhouetteCamera unit, which plugs into the PocketPC’s compact flash slot. Inside the sealed case is a three-megapixel camera, two lasers and two circuit boards. An LED flash lights the subject, while the two fan-beam lasers guide the camera so it can capture an image of the wound.
As is essential for a medical device used in a clinical setting, the unit can be cleaned and kept sterile. The sealed case is machined out of solid aluminium and scratch-resistant acrylic covers protect the two internal lasers and the camera. The PocketPC can also be wiped clean with an antiseptic cloth.
