To detect breast cancer sooner, an MIT professor designs an ultrasound bra
New research describes a flexible ultrasound that can be worn in a bra and could one day be used to more comfortably screen for breast cancer.
Canan Dagdeviren has dedicated her career to creating tools that can capture data from every nook and cranny of the human body. An electrode that reads brain signals in Parkinson’s patients. A tattoo-like patch to detect skin cancer. And now, a bra containing a flexible ultrasound that could one day be used to more comfortably screen for breast cancer.
On Friday, Dagdeviren and her colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published new research on the ultrasound device that will form the basis of a company. It’s the first time the professor has tried to take her work out of the lab and directly to patients.
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