Abstract
Medical Ultrasound scanning has been used in clinical diagnostics for years and has shown incremental improvement over the years. Currently, there is a series of low-priced, battery-operated products that connect to mobile devices. These devices are known as Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS). POCUS is the new generation tool that can potentially be equipped by every doctor in the field. While POCUS is cost-effective, it is currently lacking advanced functions found in the high-end equipment. However, advancing computing capabilities on mobile device could provide a solution. With an iPhone 12 pro that is equipped with light detection and ranging (LiDAR), the LiDAR’s accuracy of depth information helps create a coordinating system for the POCUS device. Using this coordinating system, the position information for every pixel could be obtained, and its value to the near voxel could also be computed using weighting computation. The experimental result shows that the smartphone is capable of building a 3D model for medical scanning information, even though the hardware is not specifically designed for the 3D purpose. The result demonstrates the feasibility of this approach. With the current universal use of smartphones and more future collaborations from technology-providing companies, it will not be long for POCUS to be widely adopted in the medical field.