Wearable devices with skin-like mechanical properties enable continuous monitoring of the
human body. However, wearable device design has mainly focused on recording superficial …

The coupling of waves between the piezoelectric generators, detectors, and propagating
media is challenging due to mismatch in the acoustic properties. The mismatch leads to the …

Continuous imaging of cardiac functions is highly desirable for the assessment of long-term
cardiovascular health, detection of acute cardiac dysfunction and clinical management of …

The technical part of these Guidelines and Recommendations, produced under the auspices
of EFSUMB, provides an introduction to the physical principles and technology on which all …

Serial assessment of the biomechanical properties of tissues can be used to aid the early
detection and management of pathophysiological conditions, to track the evolution of lesions …

Acute liver failure (ALF) is a critical medical condition defined as the rapid development of
hepatic dysfunction. Conventional ultrasound elastography cannot continuously monitor …

Volumetric printing, an emerging additive manufacturing technique, builds objects with
enhanced printing speed and surface quality by forgoing the stepwise ink-renewal step …

Implanted electronic sensors, compared with conventional medical imaging, allow
monitoring of advanced physiological properties of soft biological tissues continuously, such …

Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however,
fundamental challenges limit its integration with wearable technologies, namely, imaging …

Piezoelectric films have recently attracted considerable attention in the development of
various sensor and actuator devices such as nonvolatile memories, tunable microwave …