Your baby's organs, nerves and muscles are all starting to function now and although you won't be able to feel it, their tiny heart is now beating strong enough to be picked up
by ultrasound devices like a Doppler, although this isn't always possible depending on the position of your baby in the uterus.
Not exact matches
A fetal doppler is a hand - held,
ultrasound device used
by some practitioners to hear your baby's heart beat at prenatal appointments.
The Pumpables Milk Genie is manufactured in Korea
by a manufacturing partner with years of experience in making infant health equipment such as
ultrasound devices and incubators.
Biomedical engineer Elisa Konofagou at Columbia University is pursuing another way to sneak drugs into the brain,
by drilling microscopic channels with a high - intensity
ultrasound device similar to the therapeutic
ultrasound doctors use to dislodge kidney stones.
A fundamental error, according to several epidemiologists, is that Tsuda compared the results of the Fukushima survey, which used advanced
ultrasound devices that detect otherwise unnoticeable growths, with the roughly three cases of thyroid cancer per million found
by traditional clinical examinations of patients who have lumps or symptoms.
Acoustic tweezers is a microfluidic
device that utilizes
ultrasound waves produced
by piezoelectric transducers to gently and precisely position biological samples without damage.
The creation of neural dust at Berkeley, led
by Maharbiz and Jose Carmena, a Berkeley professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences and a member of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, has opened the door for wireless communication to the brain and peripheral nervous system through tiny implantable
devices inside the body that are powered
by ultrasound.
An editorial in this month's edition of Global Heart (the journal of the World Heart Federation) asks «are we living in the final days of the stethoscope» — a question being asked due to the rapid advent of point - of - care
ultrasound devices, that are becoming increasingly accurate, smaller to the point of being hand - held and less expensive as the years roll
by.
Compared with expensive, bulky,
ultrasound machines of the past, the authors say that «Hand - held
ultrasound devices introduced an alternative concept of relatively inexpensive, easy - to - use machines which could generate images interpretable
by a wider spectrum of clinicians at the point of care.
The
ultrasound on a smartphone could indeed help save millions of lives worldwide
by diagnosing diseases through this small, affordable hand - held
device.
In order to ditch the bezel, the proximity sensor is replaced
by ultrasound, the earpiece is replaced
by a piezoelectric speaker that uses the metal frame to generate sound and the front - facing camera takes its place at the bottom of the
device (which can be flipped for easier selfie use).
The duet pen uses
ultrasound, detected
by built - in microphones positioned around the tip of the pen, to triangulate its position around the
device and record what you write to within a fine degree of accuracy.