The ultrasound system, the machine that the doctor uses to take pictures of internal body structures as a diagnostic support is usually given to the patient in the form of a chart. Currently, medical ultrasound has a new innovation - Butterfly iQ - a chip-shaped mini ultrasound technology connected with smartphones, providing better diagnostic imaging with ultrasound.
""Smartphone ultrasound scanner - Butterfly iQ""
Butterfly iQ is an ultrasound in chips that retains the basic principles of an ordinary ultrasound system, adding two new innovations. First, this technology replaces piezoelectric crystals in an ordinary ultrasound system with a mini engine that functions like a small drum to produce vibrations. This allows the use of wider clinical applications, rather than setting the crystal at the time of manufacture to produce ultrasonic wave types for imaging at a certain depth, the iQ Butterfly can be tuned for different clinical applications at any time.
Secondly, the ultrasound in this chip has an integrated circuit where its mini engine is mounted directly to a semiconductor layer that contains amplifiers, signal processors and so on. That said, everything is on a chip - in Butterfly iQ. Very different from the usual ultrasound systems that use the crystal connecting cable to the computer to produce images.
By connecting the Butterfly iQ with iPhone, users can check the body parts they want anywhere and anytime. Users only need to put Butterfly iQ on the desired body part, then black and white ultrasound images will appear on the smartphone screen. Images generated from the chip will be transferred to the Butterfly storage, and interpreted by the physician or to the artificial intelligence software learning company (AI). (The iQ system incorporates three transducers in one device, doctors do not need to replace the transducers for imaging on different body parts, this can save time. Images will then be stored in the device).
