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NewsFDA approves smartphone-based ultrasound system from Mobisante
Physicians are one step closer to a closely held dream: To have a lightweight, portable, high-resolution ultrasound device they can take to patients, rather than having patients come to an ultrasound Read more...
Smartphone-based ultrasound awaits FDA clearance
One of the developers of a prototype ultrasound probe that connects to a smartphone is involved in a startup company that could bring the phone-based ultrasound to market next year if the FDA grants Read more...
RSNA: iPad helps untether radiologists from reading room
Mobility is coming to radiology, and the iPad has a lot to do with that. At this week's Radiological Society of North America annual conference in Chicago, several teams of researchers are presenting Read more...
Handheld ultrasound to make its Olympics debut
Handheld ultrasound is ready for its close-up, in front of a global audience. Physicians at the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, British Columbia, will be able to take images right on the spot with Read more...
TEDMED highlights innovations in mobile health as experts predict the stethoscope's demise
The more we hear about the revived TEDMED conference, the more we wish we had gone to the San Diego area last week to cover it--and not just because it took place in the historic Hotel del Coronado. Read more...
'Pocket' ultrasounds bring low-cost imaging to the point of care
"Portable medical imaging" may sound like an oxymoron, conjuring up thoughts of mobile MRI units that travel in 53-foot semi-trailers. (Anyone who's ever seen the mammoth Radiological Society of Read more...
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