A new way of creating specially shaped pulses of ultrasound using light and a 3D printer has been unveiled by Michael Brown and colleagues at University College London. The pulses, which are creating ...

Focused ultrasound combined with microbubbles is increasingly being used to safely and reversibly open the blood-brain barrier (BBB) for the treatment of brain tumors and neurodegenerative disorders.

The blood—brain barrier is impermeable to most drugs. Focused ultrasound can reversibly open this barrier, allowing such drugs (blue circles) to enter the brain. (Credit: Focused Ultrasound Foundation ...

A Rutgers spin-off company, PONS, developed by an engineer who lost family to illness, improves early disease detection.

The researchers, along with partners from industry and government railroad organizations, applied an advanced form of ultrasound featuring new beamforming algorithms to develop a ...

Sonograms and ultrasounds are closely related but refer to different things. An ultrasound is an imaging tool that produces a sonogram. Often, the terms sonogram and ultrasound are used ...