Yikes! This is brilliant innovation, but it should come with a pretty serious warning somewhere about the potential dangers of medical ultrasound. While the jury is still out about a lot of things, there are major reasons why the NHS in Britain discourages expectant mothers from having private "4D" scans and additional procedures.<p><a href="http://www.nhs.uk/news/2010/02February/Pages/Warning-over-souvenir-baby-scans.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.nhs.uk/news/2010/02February/Pages/Warning-over-so...</a><p>Brilliant to see you doing it though, and I'd be fascinated to see it paired with AI to make swifter diagnoses in order to cut down the length of exposure required for various measurements.
This looks very cool!<p>I've just been looking at your github repository, you mention you use the HV7360 chip to generate the ultrasound pulse.<p>I'm slightly confused by the datasheet for this chip, am I right in thinking you supply +/- 100V to this chip? If so, what are you using to generate that voltage out of curiosity?<p>(I have a ~2MHz ultrasound transducer which I keep meaning to play with, to attempt to measure liquid density, so your project is very interesting to me!)
Apologies for my somewhat off-topic question, which is only tenuously related to the topic: is there an open-source application that is capable of reading or converting .vml ultrasound scan files that are produced by proprietary devices?
Everyone is really excited about the future expansion of inky rasping in medicine (even though it's already been in use for decades). Excited to check this out.