<p class="title">Scientists have developed a novel smartphone-based portable ultrasound machine that can help detect cancer easily at home.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The machine called Butterfly IQ is a pocket-sized ultrasound device which is the size and shape of an electric razor.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Researchers from Butterfly Network, a US-based startup, developed the device that works by shooting sound waves into the body and capturing the echoes.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Usually, the sound waves are generated by a vibrating crystal. However, this machine uses 9,000 tiny drums etched onto a semiconductor chip, 'MIT Technology Review' reported.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Earlier this year, John Martin, chief medical officer at Butterfly Network, discovered a cancerous mass in his own throat while testing the device.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Martin had been having an uncomfortable feeling of thickness in his throat. He used the device, which was connected to his smartphone, to obtain black-and grey images.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He found a three centimetre mass that was diagnosed as squamous-cell cancer - a form of skin cancer that develops in the cells of the outer layer of the skin.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The device gives you the ability to do everything at the bedside: you can pull it out of your pocket and scan the whole body," Martin said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"To look at this as just an ultrasound device is like looking at an iPhone and saying it is just a phone. If you have a window into the body where anyone can afford it, everyone can use it, and everyone can interpret it, it becomes a heck of a lot more than an ultrasound device," he added. </p>
<p class="title">Scientists have developed a novel smartphone-based portable ultrasound machine that can help detect cancer easily at home.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The machine called Butterfly IQ is a pocket-sized ultrasound device which is the size and shape of an electric razor.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Researchers from Butterfly Network, a US-based startup, developed the device that works by shooting sound waves into the body and capturing the echoes.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Usually, the sound waves are generated by a vibrating crystal. However, this machine uses 9,000 tiny drums etched onto a semiconductor chip, 'MIT Technology Review' reported.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Earlier this year, John Martin, chief medical officer at Butterfly Network, discovered a cancerous mass in his own throat while testing the device.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Martin had been having an uncomfortable feeling of thickness in his throat. He used the device, which was connected to his smartphone, to obtain black-and grey images.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He found a three centimetre mass that was diagnosed as squamous-cell cancer - a form of skin cancer that develops in the cells of the outer layer of the skin.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The device gives you the ability to do everything at the bedside: you can pull it out of your pocket and scan the whole body," Martin said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"To look at this as just an ultrasound device is like looking at an iPhone and saying it is just a phone. If you have a window into the body where anyone can afford it, everyone can use it, and everyone can interpret it, it becomes a heck of a lot more than an ultrasound device," he added. </p>