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# FDA Clears Butterfly Network ‘Ultrasound-on-a-Chip’
- URL: https://www.fdaweb.com/fda-clears-butterfly-network-ultrasound-on-a-chip/
- Published: 2017-10-27T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T22:58:41.000Z
- Author: David McFarland
- Tags: Devices, #legacy-id-D5139988

FDA has cleared a Butterfly Network 510(k) for what the sponsor describes as the world’s first “ultrasound-on-a-chip” based imaging system, the Butterfly iQ for the iPhone. The clearance covers 13 clinical applications, the “broadest ever for a single ultrasound transducer,” the company says. “By combining almost 10 thousand sensors, 40 times more than systems costing 100 times as much, Butterfly ushers in a new era of accessible, high-performance medical imaging.”

Butterfly's ultrasound-on-a-chip technology combines the capabilities of the typical three probes into a single ultra wide-band, 2D matrix array that comprises thousands of microelectromechanical systems, the company says. “These sensors are directly overlaid on an integrated circuit encompassing the electronics of a high performance ultrasound system.”