Technology that keeps track of how a smartphone is oriented can now give $50,000 ultrasound machines many of the 3D imaging abilities of their $250,000 counterparts -- for the cost of a $10 microchip.

Joshua Broder was using a Wii handset to bat a ping-pong ball back and forth when the idea struck. An emergency physician at Duke University Medical Center, he uses ultrasound to understand what’s ...

Mike and Faith West are feeling an immense amount of gratitude for visiting McLaren Greater Lansing on a much happier occasion as they watch the 3D cardiac ultrasound machine that they helped purchase ...

Mike and Faith West are feeling an immense amount of gratitude for visiting McLaren Greater Lansing on a much happier occasion as they watch the 3D cardiac ultrasound machine that they helped purchase ...

For people who are at high risk of developing breast cancer, frequent screenings with ultrasound can help detect tumors early. MIT researchers have now developed a miniaturized ultrasound system that ...

The new system consists of a small ultrasound probe, on left, attached to an acquisition and processing module that is a little larger than a smartphone. CAMBRIDGE, MA -- For people who are at high ...

Nevada Sanchez, co-founder of Butterfly Network, talks to Machine Design about the organization making life-saving technology available to frontline healthcare workers in the developing world. In ...