Team led by Tsai Tsung-Yuan, a tenured associate professor at the School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, has successfully developed the world's first whole-body biplanar dynamic imaging system for bone and jointIn. In the recently held second Yangtze River Delta Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition finals,  they took home first prize in the competition, credited for its dedication to the early detection, diagnosis and treatment of orthopedic ailments.

With its digital biplanar X-ray imaging system, which can perform four-dimensional (4D) in-vivo function evaluations of bones and joints, patients can achieve functional positioning and move themselves during procedures.Thanks to this new technology, the impact of diseases on joint function will be truly quantified and clarified. It is the world's first weight-bearing, dual-plane, full-length, 4D X-ray imaging system. Its 4D image reconstruction will assist clinicians in constructing tailored and patient-specific treatment programs, according to Tsai.

"The clinical experience gained through medicine can be detracted or biased by one's memory or judgment, but objective medical evidence preserved in digital medicine will not be lost over time," Tsai said. For other tech startups seeking to develop products and solutions to improve clinical care and health, his advice is "to be closely integrated" with frontline clinical work and explore unmet clinical needs.