OTELO

OTELO project will study and develop a fully integrated end-to-end mobile tele-echography system for population groups that are not served locally, either temporarily or permanently, by medical experts. OTELO project offers an alternative to medical centers that lack ultrasound specialists.

It is a portable ultrasound probe holder robotic system, associated with new mobile communications technologies, that will reproduce the expert’s hand movements during an ultrasound examination. Although being manipulated by non-specialised staff on the remote site, the slave system will bring, in real time, good image quality back to the expert site where force feedback control will be combined with virtual reality for the rendering of the distant environment.

Consortium

• Informatics and Telematics Institute
• Universite d’Orleans
• Sinters SA
• Kell s.r.l
• Universite de Tours
• Brunel University
• Elsacom S.p.a
• Corporacio Sanitaria Clinic
• EBIT Sanita S.p.a