image: University of Washington researchers have created a new smartphone app that can detect fluid behind the eardrum by simply using a piece of paper and a smartphone's microphone and speaker. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 15, 2019, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by J. Chan at University of Washington in Seattle, WA; and colleagues was titled, "Detecting middle ear fluid using smartphones." view more
Credit: [Photo credit: Dennis Wise/University of Washington]