Conformable ultrasound breast patch for deep tissue scanning and imaging
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Du, Wenya; Zhang, Lin; Suh, Emma; Lin, Dabin; Marcus, Colin; Ozkan, Lara; Ahuja, Avani; Fernandez, Sara; Shuvo, Ikra Iftekhar; Sadat, David; Liu, Weiguo; Li, Fei; Chandrakasan, Anantha P.; Ozmen, Tolga; Dagdeviren, Canan; ... Show more Show less
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Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit its integration with wearable technologies, namely, imaging over large-area curvilinear organs. We introduced a wearable, conformable ultrasound breast patch (cUSBr-Patch) that enables standardized and reproducible image acquisition over the entire breast with less reliance on operator training and applied transducer compression. A nature-inspired honeycomb-shaped patch combined with a phased array is guided by an easy-to-operate tracker that provides for large-area, deep scanning, and multiangle breast imaging capability. The in vitro studies and clinical trials reveal that the array using a piezoelectric crystal [Yb/Bi-Pb(In
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2023-07-28Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and EngineeringPublisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Wenya Du et al. ,Conformable ultrasound breast patch for deep tissue scanning and imaging.Sci. Adv.9,eadh5325(2023).
Version: Final published version
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2375-2548
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Multidisciplinary
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