POSTS TAGGED AS ultrasound

Ultrasound Activated Pacemaker

Startup company, EBR Systems (Sunnyvale, CA) is developing a new generation of pacemakers that rely on ultrasound signaling rather [MORE]

Ultrasound Bone Healing

The now familiar ultrasound image of a baby in the womb derives from research Dr. Ian Donald, Regius Professor [MORE]

Advances in Medical Imaging

This fascinating piece abstracts six new technologies in imaging that promise reduced radiation risk, reduced cost, mobile systems, and [MORE]

Ultrasound Training App

Noting that training budgets for hospitals and clinics are feeling squeezed, Global Medical Imaging (Charlotte, NC) is offering the [MORE]

Photoacoustic Imaging

Realizing that laser generated infrared light can induce vibrations in the carbon-hydrogen bonds of fatty deposits in arteries, Professor [MORE]

Ultrasound - Future of the Technology

High intensity, focused ultrasound will become an increasingly useful surgical tool.

Noninvasive Assessment of Brain Pressure

Intracranial pressure above 20 mmHg, as might happen from bleeding or swelling, often is a consequence of traumatic rain [MORE]

Plying the Blood-Brain Barrier with Ultrasound

Using a headset to beam low-intensity ultrasound over the entire brain, for an hour’s duration, Perfusion Technology (Andover, MA) [MORE]

Automated, Portable Cardio Imaging Device

Panasonic’s “CardioHealth” Station uses ultrasound to produce a high resolution, real time image of a patient’s coronary and carotid [MORE]

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]