title: iphone camera application
body: <p>while in graduate school for biomedical eng I developed a device we called a "vein finder".  It was a simple device that was good enough for our eng school to patent.</p>
  
  <p>I think it would be very very easy to use the iphone camera to develop an iphone app whereby MD's/ nurses/EMT's could use the app to easily identify peripherial veins that are not visible to the naked eye.  This would be invaluable in starting IV's and giving bedside medications.  The vein finder was esp helpful for patients in shock who had poor venous filling and therefore didn't have veins that "popped into view" with a tourniquet.</p>
  
  <p>It would require using the iphone light at specific wavelengths... anybody have any idea if that is possible? </p>