Our Lab-to-Fab article “Translating wearable ultrasound with system integration and enabling technologies,” published in Nature Sensors in August, is receiving attention beyond the scientific community.
Together with our co-authors Christoph Leitner (ETH Zürich) and Luca Benini (ETH Zürich, University Bologna), we discuss why many promising wearable ultrasound systems still struggle to make the transition from research demonstrators to real-world applications. A central argument of the article is that advances in transducers, electronics, and signal processing alone are not enough. The field also needs accessible, reconfigurable, and shared development platforms that lower the barrier for application-driven research and enable system-level requirements to be explored at an early stage.
Two German professional media outlets, Elektronikpraxis and Healthcare Digital, have now picked up this discussion. In “Wir brauchen mehr als eine weitere Hardwareplattform” (“We need more than just another hardware platform”), Elektronikpraxis focuses on the technical requirements and research infrastructure needed for wearable ultrasound. Healthcare Digital, in “Offene Plattformen sollen Ultraschall-Wearables aus dem Labor holen” (“Open platforms aim to bring ultrasound wearables out of the lab”), looks particularly at the transition from research prototypes toward practically usable systems.
We are glad to see the discussion around shared platforms and the translation of wearable ultrasound reaching beyond the scientific community.
Read our article in Nature Sensors:
Translating wearable ultrasound with system integration and enabling technologies
Media coverage:
Elektronikpraxis: “Wir brauchen mehr als eine weitere Hardwareplattform”
Healthcare Digital: “Offene Plattformen sollen Ultraschall-Wearables aus dem Labor holen”
