This perspective article provides a brief overview on materials, fabrications, beamforming,
and applications for wearable ultrasound devices, a rapidly growing field with versatile …

Ultrasound imaging has been developed for image-guided radiotherapy for tumor tracking,
and the flexible array transducer is a promising tool for this task. It can reduce the user …

Ultrasound imaging provides the means for non-invasive real-time diagnostics of the internal
structure of soft tissue in living organisms. However, the majority of commercially available …

Flexible ultrasound transducers (FUTs), capable of conforming to irregular surfaces, have
become a research hotspot in the field of medical imaging. With these transducers, high …

Additive manufacturing (AM) is a new manufacturing technology for building complex 3D
components by progressively adding material in a layer-by-layer fashion. Despite the many …

Photoacoustic imaging has demonstrated recent promise for surgical guidance, enabling
visualization of tool tips during surgical and non-surgical interventions. To receive …

A flexible ultrasound array can potentially provide a larger field-of-view, enhanced imaging
resolution, and less operator dependency compared to conventional rigid transducer arrays …

Conventionally, ultrasound (US) diagnosis is performed using hand-held rigid probes. Such
devices are difficult to be used for long-term monitoring because they need to be …

Simple Summary Ultrasound (US) imaging has been widely used for tumor tracking in image-
guided radiotherapy. The quality of US images using conventional probes highly depends …

Flexible array transducers can adapt to patient-specific geometries during real-time
ultrasound (US) image-guided therapy monitoring. This makes the system radiation-free and …