http://lanuovaferrara.gelocal.it/ferrara/cronaca/2015/06/16/news/nuovi-test-ferraresi-per-astrosamantha-1.11626294?refresh_ce A team of researchers from Unife in Houston to complete the planning of scientific experiments on the flow venous performed in collaboration with the Italian astronaut during the mission 42. The Futura prof. Paolo Zamboni: the tools we have used will be used to send diagnostic data over great distances by Joel Hunt
A group of researchers from Ferrara is located in Houston these days for a new session of scientific experiments planned in collaboration with the Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, from a few days returned to Earth after the longest stay in space for a woman, record set in During the mission Futura 42. Professor Angelo Taibi, project manager of the project 'Brain Drain' and researcher in the Department of Physics and Earth Sciences of Unife, the United States will work with the two researchers Erica Menegatti and Sergio Gianesini, the Center for Vascular Diseases of Unife. Wednesday, June 17 meet Samantha Cristoforetti to run a new test session.
Together with them, restrained by commitments in Ferrara, there will be the professor of Ferrara Paolo Zamboni , director of the Center for Vascular Diseases of Unife-Sant'Anna and head of the project conceived in Ferrara ('Brain Drain') managed by a multidisciplinary team. Zamboni was the coordinator, in recent years, the national scientific experimentation conducted on the relationship between CCSVI and multiple sclerosis. Thanks to these studies were acquired knowledge allowed the scientific group Ferrara to develop the instrumentation used to 'Brain Drain'. The goal of the test is to measure the effects of microgravity on the circulation of blood to detect any diseases linked to the long stay in space and for this work were used the ultrasound and the plethysmograph (an instrument very advanced technology designed by researchers Este), which in recent months have allowed to monitor the parameters of the venous circulation of AstroSamantha while in orbit.
Those two devices will also be used during programmed texts for tomorrow in Houston. The ultrasound will measure the values of the cerebral circulation, the plethysmograph venous flow between head and heart. "With Samantha we performed several test sessions - tells Zamboni - in Cologne in 2014 before departure, then the series inside the Space Station International. To complete the program lacks the results of the experiments of Houston and those planned in about a month in Cologne, at the headquarters of the European Space. We are very pleased with the experience gained in recent months. I must confess that I never imagined the complexity of the scientific evidence made 'dialogue' with the space station. We had a window of time of twenty minutes to co-ordinate the in-orbit tests taking synchronized activity of the groups that were operating in Livorno, in the US and Denmark. He was working with a little ' apprehension, but today we can say that the experience was very useful. "
In particular, Zamboni adds, "we have developed the idea that the instrumentation used in these months will be used in future in Telemedicine, to transmit diagnostic data reliably even at a great distance, as was the case in trade with the International Space Station which it is 400 km from the Earth. "
Yet nothing can be said instead of evidence gained through diagnostic medical tests. "We will make an overall assessment only after analyzing and evaluating the data that will be recorded in Houston and in Cologne," says Zamboni
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Un team di ricercatori di Unife a Houston per completare la programmazione degli esperimenti scientifici sui flussi venosi eseguiti in collaborazione con l'astronauta italiana nel corso della missione Futura 42. Il prof. Paolo Zamboni: gli strumenti che abbiamo usato potranno essere utilizzati per i…