[Urotechnology: a new interdisciplinary platform for promoting and managing of technical innovations in urology].

The innovative power in medical engineering and technology development requires a close cooperation between universities and non-university research institutions and a collaboration with industrial partners. German knowledge in the fields of video and micro-optics, microsystem technology and of informational technology and software applications seem to be highly competitive at international level. Germany's previous leadership in the development of technical equipment will be challenged by today's requirements and difficulties in medical engineering.

[Evaluation of reading devices for the blind and community utilization at the Freiburg University Library].

An interdisciplinary study was conducted to investigate the use of two reading machines placed at the disposal of visually handicapped individuals in a public location (Freiburg University Library). The machines were designed to translate written text into artificial speech or braille, as selected by the user. Two different configurations were tested, with data collection through interviews and systematic observation.

Biometry with a video-genlock interface and a computer-based image-analyzing system: use as a TV-videopupillometer.

TV-videobiometry is frequently used in biomedical research. Usually, the video images are digitized by computer systems. In contrast, the technique described uses a device known as a video-genlock interface (genlock).

[Terminology of ultrasound vascular diagnosis].

There is at present no accepted nomenclature regarding diagnostic vascular ultrasound. At two scientific meetings, the Study Group for Vascular Diagnosis of the German Society of Ultrasound in Medicine (DEGUM) developed a terminology for Doppler and duplex sonography of the arteries and veins supplying the brain and of peripheral vessels. The most important of these sonographic terms and their synonyms are presented.

[Terminology of ultrasonic vascular diagnosis].

There is at present no accepted nomenclature regarding diagnostic vascular ultrasound. At two scientific meetings, the Study Group for Vascular Diagnosis of the German Society of Ultrasound in Medicine (DEGUM) developed a terminology for Doppler and duplex sonography of the arteries and veins supplying the brain and of peripheral vessels. The most important of these sonographic terms and their synonyms are presented.