Are you inspired by health care challenges?
Are you eager to work on new, cutting-edge, technological developments in the area of medical ultrasound?
Are you our next PhD-candidate in novel and advanced ultrasound imaging for wearable monitoring solutions?
Information Wearable medical monitoring solutions are needed to manage the increasing financial burden of healthcare for Europe's aging population. Current wearable devices are limited to measuring surface-level parameters like electrical potentials, temperature, color, and sweat. Wearable ultrasound, in turn, could enable safe, non-invasive monitoring of deep internal body processes, enhancing accuracy and clinical utility.
The EU project “SonoSkin” is aimed at developing an affordable and scalable wearable ultrasound technology for continuous monitoring of critical body functions both in hospital and home settings. The project involves the development of open-access platform technologies using MEMS ultrasound technology in combination with edge AI to manufacture wearable devices (patches) that can monitor processes deep inside the body.
We are seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate to join our team and contribute to the development of wearable ultrasound technology for lung monitoring of ventilated patients.
Key Responsibilities - Conducting an initial exploration study with a clinical ultrasound scanner
- Developing acquisition schemes tailored to wearable ultrasound
- Ultrasound signal processing and (AI based) feature extraction relevant to lung monitoring
- Experimental validation of the final wearable ultrasound monitoring prototype
The position will be based at the Photoacoustics & Ultrasound Lab Eindhoven (PULS/e) in the Department of Biomedical Engineering under the supervision of dr. ir. H.-M. Schwab and prof. dr. ir. R.G.P. Lopata. The PULS/e group consists of a multi-disciplinary and international team of researchers that work on novel imaging US techniques, photoacoustics, image reconstruction, functional imaging, and model-based image analysis. Within this project you will be closely collaborating with industrial project partners, such as Demcon Macawi and Xiver. Next to the research described above, you will supervise MSc / BSc students that will work on projects within the scope of your own.