Monitoring and Spatially Mapping Body Sounds #WearableWednesday
Researchers at Northwestern University have developed soft, miniature, wearable devices capable of continuously tracking subtle body sounds simultaneously and wirelessly at multiple locations across nearly any region of the body. Their pilot studies performed with clinical-grade accuracy, making this a huge step forward in medical wearables and research.
Containing pairs of high-performance, digital microphones and accelerometers, the small, lightweight devices gently adhere to the skin to create a comprehensive non-invasive sensing network. By simultaneously capturing sounds and correlating those sounds to body processes, the devices spatially map how air flows into, through and out of the lungs as well as how cardiac rhythm changes in varied resting and active states, and how food, gas and fluids move through the intestines.
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