NTT Tests New Dimension In US-Japan Telepresence And Telemedicine In Fetal Care Management By Linking Research And Education Networks

... Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) and the National Center for Child Health and Development will test feasibility of transmitting digitalized fetal medical images (including 3-dimensional ultrasound (*1) as well as fetoscopic images) between the US and Japan. The purpose is to implement the telediagnosis and prospective telesurgical treatment of fetal diseases on a global scale in the hope of braking the sharp decline in the Japanese birth rate... click link for more info. ...