If the devices can work wirelessly—a goal the team is currently working toward—the ultrasound stickers could become portable imaging products that patients could take home from the doctor’s office or even buy at a pharmacy. “We envision some patches that will be attached to different locations on the body, and the patches will communicate with your cellphone, where artificial intelligence algorithms will analyze the images on demand,” says the study’s senior author, Xuanhe Zhao, professor of mechanical and civil engineering . environmental engineering at MIT. “We think we’ve ushered in a new era of wearable imaging: With a few patches on your body, you could see your internal organs.”
