OET Seeks Comment on Waiver for Lung-Fluid Measuring Device
The FCC Office of Engineering and Technology sought comment on a waiver request by Sensible Medical Innovations for a system that uses ultra-wideband (UWB) medical imaging to obtain lung fluid measurements for congestive heart failure patients in a noninvasive way.…
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Rules restrict such systems to operations between 3100 MHz and 10,600 MHz, OET said. Sensible said its system "must operate in the range of 1005 MHz to 1709 MHz, because accurate lung fluid detection requires frequencies that can penetrate the body, which it claims is not technologically possible” with the higher frequencies, OET said. The company also sought a waiver of testing procedures and of a requirement that users of UWB imaging devices coordinate deployment with NTIA through the FCC. Comments are due at the FCC March 12, replies March 27, in docket 18-39.