Paul L M J van Neer, Laurens C J M Peters, Roy G F A Verbeek, Bart Peeters, Gerard de Haas, Lars Hörchens, Laurent Fillinger, Thijs Schrama, Egon J W Merks-Swolfs, Kaj Gijsbertse, Anne E C M Saris, Moein Mozaffarzadeh, Jan M Menssen, Chris L de Korte, Jan-Laurens P J van der Steen, Arno W F Volker, Gerwin H Gelinck
With the huge progress in micro-electronics and artificial intelligence, the ultrasound probe has become the bottleneck in further adoption of ultrasound beyond the clinical setting (e.g. home and monitoring applications). Today, ultrasound transducers have a small aperture, are bulky, contain lead and are expensive to fabricate. Furthermore, they are rigid, which limits their integration into flexible skin patches. New ways to fabricate flexible ultrasound patches have therefore attracted much attention recently...
March 30, 2024: Nature Communications