Cell Phone SDK

The World's First Ultrasound Machine Based on a Cell Phone

Working under a Microsoft Research grant, Cell Phone as a Platform for Healthcare, we modified commercially available USB ultrasound probes to work with a smart phone and developed the SDK presented, here.

This work was presented at TEPR+ in February, 2009: Presentation
This work was presented at Microsoft Research TechFest 2009 on February 25-26.
Microsoft Resaerch also published a white paper on this technology.
Was shown at the 2009 World Health Care Congress in Washington D.C., April 14-16. The poster is here.
A presentation will be given at Microsoft Research's Faculty Summit on July 13, 2009. We will also be doing live demos at this meeting.

SDK Release

Version 2.51 has been released to the public. Source code is now available. It is released under a BSD-style license by [Washington University in St. Louis].

An installer for the binary is also available and must be installed before working with the source code; this is to properly install the drivers and resources referenced by the application.

For help/discussion of this code, please use the help forum on the SourceForge.net project page.

The source may be access via SVN as documented here. Using SVN on a Windows machine is easy and we suggest downloading TortoiseSVN for your platform if you don't already use SVN via some other method.

MobileUS on SourceForge.net
Binary installer will install MobileUS on your Windows Mobile 6.1 or higher smartphone. It also includes several sample cine files so you can load them and see what they system can do. This will run on any Windows Mobile 6.1 phone, even if it does not have a USB host port.

In the News

CNBC Street Smarts Interview

NBC news coverage: WIFE Video

Washington University News and Communications

St. Louis Post Dispatch

Washington University in St. Louis Record

Washington Post

SonoWorld

Outdoor Rugged Blog

Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

e! Science News

Science Daily

Cellular News

Bio-Medicine

Technology Review

PCMag.com

5 Innovative Ways Cell Phones Are Being Used To Save Lives

New York Times

MobileActive.org

WirelessDoc

Blogs

Dave's Blog and Twitter and Facebook

Videos

CNBC Street Smarts Interview
NBC news coverage
High quality Palm Treo 800w Demo
Demo on a Rugged Hand-Held --- Another, but higher resolution
Demo - A complete demo of two phones
First Demo
Tissue Phantom - This is a simple phantom image of a series of pins and a few cyst-like structures. The phantom is old and dried out, but it gives you a sense of the capabilities of the system.
Carotid Artery - A demo showing the carotid artery being imaged on the cell phone.
Tissue Phantom - A demo using a standard tissue phantom.

Tutorials

As some demo units are now in the field, here are two videos that are short tutorials on the phone/probe/software (V2.4x) combination. Sorry about the poor quality video, but I think they are still useful. I'll redo these with a better camera in a bit.