POSTS TAGGED AS ultrasound

Ultrasound as a Long Term Reversible Contraceptive

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill professors James Tsuruta and Paul Dayton won one of 78 awards the Bill and [MORE]

Ultrasound Clot Busting

With an apparatus resembling a Gamma Knife, University of California, San Diego professor Thilo Hoelscher is experimenting with high [MORE]

Wireless Health Devices

At a meeting this fall, California cardiologist Eric Topol, who  is director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute (San Diego) [MORE]

Telemedicine: Listening for Newborn’s Heart Murmur

Using a Philips 5500 ultrasound machine, connected to a Librestream Onsight 2000R video device, and a secured communications network (provided [MORE]

Pocket Ultrasound

Siemens has begun marketing its “Acuson P10″ portable ultrasound device-which is small enough to fit in a lab coat pocket.  [MORE]

Focused Ultrasound for Brain Surgery

Combining ultrasound and MRI, neurosurgeons in Switzerland successfully eliminated small sections of brain tissue that were causing chronic pain in [MORE]

The Ultrasound Activated Brain

Parkinson’s sufferers experience motor dysfunctions as cells of the brain’s substantia nigra fail to transmit impulses.  Deep brain electrodes can [MORE]

Ultrasound Cell Phone

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, William Richard and David Zar, have developed a compact ultrasound probe and software [MORE]

Vector: Smart Capsule

Thomas Lango, an engineer with SINTEF-a large independent research organization in Norway-have been working with physicians to develop a “smart [MORE]

Microbubbles Used For Ultrasound Contrast

Professor Jonathan Linder, M. D., at the Oregon Health Sciences University has carried out a study using intravenous injected [MORE]