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Two separate studies give us a glimpse into the future of cardiac ultrasound, better known as echocardiography.  From UC-San Diego’s department of nanoengineering comes a wearable ultrasound imaging system that permits continuous visual assessment of the heart’s function in real time. The probe is exceedingly flexible permitting it to be gently bent, wrapped, poked, and twisted.

Meanwhile, bioengineers at Ontario’s Western University have developed a strategy for 3 dimensional ultrasound imaging. To generate these images, the researchers created a computer-controlled robotic cradle to precisely move the ultrasound transducer across the surface of the chest and mated it with software to assemble the individual images and draw a 3D representation of the heart or other internal organs including the liver.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05498-z

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9800921

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