{"id":217578,"date":"2025-07-10T22:06:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T03:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/new-wearable-device-that-mimics-ct-scans-delivers-continuous-monitoring-for-heart-and-lung-patients"},"modified":"2025-07-10T22:06:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T03:06:06","slug":"new-wearable-device-that-mimics-ct-scans-delivers-continuous-monitoring-for-heart-and-lung-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/new-wearable-device-that-mimics-ct-scans-delivers-continuous-monitoring-for-heart-and-lung-patients","title":{"rendered":"New wearable device that mimics CT scans delivers continuous monitoring for heart and lung patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-wearable-device-that-mimics-ct-scans-delivers-continuous-monitoring-for-heart-and-lung-patients.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed a first-of-its-kind wearable device capable of continuously scanning the lungs and heart of hospital patients while they rest in bed \u2013 offering a revolutionary alternative to CT scans.<\/p>\n<p>The belt-like device, attached around a patient\u2019s chest, uses ultrasound and works like a CT scanner. Rather than taking an isolated snapshot, it can produce a series of dynamic, high-resolution images of the heart, lungs and internal organs over time, giving doctors deeper insight into a patient\u2019s condition. The device can be worn in bed and also reduces the need for repeated trips to radiology or exposure to doses of ionising radiation.<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough device has been developed at the University of Bath in collaboration with Polish technology company Netrix and is detailed in a recent publication in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Groundbreaking sensor technology promises safer, real-time monitoring for hospitalised cardiothoracic patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed a first-of-its-kind wearable device capable of continuously scanning the lungs and heart of hospital patients while they rest in bed \u2013 offering a revolutionary alternative to CT scans. The belt-like device, attached around a patient\u2019s chest, uses ultrasound and works like a CT scanner. Rather than taking an isolated snapshot, it can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}