Eric Topol November 30, 2022
The remarkable untapped potential of smartphone ultrasound
Several years ago I got my hands on a smartphone ultrasound device (a probe that attaches to the base of a smartphone) and was struck by the newfound ability to image any part of my body except the brain. I subsequently published the images (below) in a short piece reviewing the first decade of digital medicine.
The funny part of that sweep of imaging various organs is that my only prior experience with ultrasound was with the heart—echocardiography. So in order to image the gall bladder or the kidney, I had to resort to Google to watch a “how to” video. But the total body medical selfie took less than an hour to...
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