...Proceedings of the 2022 Design of Medical Devices Conference DMD2022 April 11-14, 2022, Minneapolis, MN, USA DMD2022-1006 TOWARDS A UNIVERSAL DEVICE FOR POINT-OF-CARE MEDICINE: A CUSTOM TRANSDUCER FOR LONG-TERM MONITORING OF LOCAL VASCULAR FLOW VIA ULTRASOUND IMAGING Haley Abramson Johns Hopkins...

... University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Carle Illinois College of Medicine Urbana, IL *these authors contributed equally ABSTRACT To help the growing visually impaired population navigate their surroundings, we propose a low-cost device for the detection of obstacles using ultrasound technology. Existing...

... * These authors contributed equally to this work. Abstract Abstract Standard diagnostic ultrasound imaging procedures heavily rely on a sonographer for image acquisition. Given the ultrasound probe is manually manipulated by the sonographer, there is a potential for noise artifacts...

... left in the brain upon completion of the surgery. This can lead to a wide range of post-operative risks including dangerous immune responses, additional medical care or surgical operations, and even death. This project seeks to develop a unique medical device that utilizes ultrasound technology...