NASA selects GEs ultrasound system

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BANGALORE: GE Healthcare announced that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has selected GE Healthcare's Vivi..

BANGALORE: GE Healthcare announced that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has selected GE Healthcare's Vivid q Cardiovascular Ultrasound system for delivery to the International Space Station (ISS) on its final space shuttle flight.
The Vivid q will be launched on the space shuttle Atlantis, scheduled to launch on July 8. NASA selected the Vivid q following a rigorous regimen of spaceflight hardware qualification and acceptance testing. The customised Vivid q will be used onboard ISS as part of NASA's human research program, specifically to help assess the impact of long duration microgravity space flight on astronauts.Al Lojewski, Vice President and General Manager of GE Healthcare's Cardiovascular Ultrasound Unit said, "We are excited that the Vivid q's exceptional imaging capabilities will also now support NASA's important research in space flight and the impact of space travel on the human physiology."

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The Vivid q device will be used for general crew health assessment, and in NASA space research investigations such as Integrated Cardiovascular, which looks at the weakening of heart muscles associated with longduration spaceflight, and the Integrated Resistance and Aerobic Training Study (Sprint) evaluation of the use of high intensity, low volume exercise training to minimise loss of muscle, bone, and cardiovascular function in astronauts.

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