A wearable ultrasound multi-transducer array system for abdominal organs monitoring

Ultrasound imaging (USI) or Medical Sonography (MS) as it is formally called is widely used in biomedical applications over the last decades. Form the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) minimally invasive monitoring to the recent point of care testing besides the patient´s bed. US imaging outcomes can provide clinicians with a thorough view of the internal parts of the human body at a very low expense. In this paper, we insinuate an alternative approach compared to already existing ones of capturing US images. We propose a wearable ultrasound system composed of an array of ultrasound circular 2D transducers, integrated in a belt, for point of care monitoring of the abdominal region and particularly the liver for critical ill subjects. The configuration of the array and the type of the transducers will entail a system capable of providing clinicians with high resolution 2D imaging of the region of interest (ROI) as well as 3D representation of whole organs without theirs assistance.