New smart phone offers ultrasound imaging.

• Marrying ultrasound technology with a smart phone, computer ecperts have created a compact, mobile, palm-sized medical imaging device. The commercial ultrasound probes is compatible with Microsoft Windows mobile-based smart phones.
• The new smart phone with ultrasound imaging is a hand held device that can image the kidney, liver, bladder, and eyes, endocavity probes for prostate and uterine screenings and biopsies, and vascular probes for imaging veins and arteries for starting IVs and central lines. It can potentially help caregivers of patients with Duchene’s Muscular Dystrophy, and find applicications in the military as well.