Most current ultrasound imaging systems use piezoelectric materials for the ultrasound transducer. The recent development of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) allowed…
Advances in sensor technologies are creating a paradigm shift in the way humans interact with their environments. For instance, one…
The rise of on-body medical monitoring devices has created a need to efficiently and securely transmit physiological information around the…
There is a need for large embedded memory that operates over a wide range of supply voltage compatible with the…
Body-coupled communication (BCC) was first implemented at MIT as a means to communicate between multiple devices around the body, forming…
In wireless sensor applications such as implantable neural recording arrays, the high energy cost to transmit a bit of information…
The Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasound Transducer (CMUT) is an alternative to traditional piezoelectric transducers. The CMUT technology provides an opportunity for…
Malaria kills about a million people worldwide a year. The parasitic disease prevails mainly in Africa, India, and Brazil; it…
Vital signs such as heart rate, blood pressure, cardiac output, blood oxygenation, respiratory rate, and body temperature are necessary in…
The proposed research program has two primary goals. The first goal is to improve the evaluation and treatment of patients…
Advances in mobile electronics are fueling new possibilities in medical monitoring in which sophisticated, wearable devices can monitor a subject’s…
Understanding certain medical conditions requires understanding certain aspects of the blood flow in the arterial network. For instance, studying atherosclerosis…
We have developed a low-power, battery-free tag for use in pervasive sensing applications such as wearable patient-monitoring systems or body-sensor…
We have developed an electrocardiogram (EKG) preamplifier with a power consumption of 2.8μW, 8.1μVrms input-referred noise, and a Common-Mode Rejection…
Pulse oximeters are ubiquitous in modern medicine for non-invasively measuring the percentage of oxygenated hemoglobin in a patient’s blood by…
With the escalating costs of hospital visits, clinicians are opting to use at-home monitoring devices to diagnose patients. Current ECG…
Advances in mobile electronics are fueling new possibilities for small, non-invasive, ambulatory medical monitoring systems that can be used to…