Licensed Under Creative Commons Attribution CC BY A New Generation of Ultrasonic Techniques Applied In Medical Imaging by Using Cell Phones

Abstract: In the field of medical application of ultrasound imaging, the probe- smartphone concept has been integrated. Imagine that these smartphones in ambulances and emergency rooms. In the case of larger scale, these kinds of cellphones will act as a complete computer that runs windows. It could become the essential computer of the Developing World, where trained medical personnel are scarce, but most of the population, as much as 90 percent, has access to a cell phone tower. Developments took place elsewhere such as the world’s first mobile- phone ultrasound instrument using a low- cost ultrasound probe and a windows mobile phone; Stethoscope of the 21st century will be described in this paper. Steps to be taken for commercializing this ultrasound technology are suggested