Scientists Use Ultrasound to Jump-Start a Man's Brain After Coma
A 25-year-old man recovering from a coma receives sonic stimulation to excite neurons in the thalamus, previously only achievable through a risky surgical procedure.
View ArticleWe Can Extend The Life Of Your Legacy Ultrasound Equipment
It always seems to happen at the worst time--in the middle of a heavily scheduled week, your ultrasound equipment breaks.
View ArticlePatient Looks To New Ultrasound Treatment To Relieve Tremors
Alexandra Lebenthal has kept the condition that makes her hands uncontrollably shake a secret throughout her life. Living with essential tremor since she was 3, Lebenthal has struggled to pour drinks,...
View ArticleFusion Targeted Prostate Biopsy Proves More Accurate In Diagnosis Of Prostate...
New research confirms that an innovative procedure combining MRI and ultrasound to create a 3-D image of the prostate can more accurately locate suspicious areas and help diagnose whether it's prostate...
View ArticleMEDICAL ULTRASOUND AWARENESS MONTH
MUAM is held annually in October to create awareness of the role diagnostic medical sonographers play in the medical community and to educate the public about medical ultrasound and its many uses in...
View ArticleResearch finds that ultrasound slows brain ageing
Treatment with scanning ultrasound has already been proven to reverse Alzheimer's disease in mice, and now it appears it could also slow down ageing in healthy brains, according to University of...
View ArticleNovel imaging technique with potential for medical diagnostics
A unique new imaging method, called 'polarized nuclear imaging'...has potential for new types of high-resolution medical diagnostics as well as industrial and physics research applications.
View ArticleNew ultrasound method offers increasingly personalised and earlier assessment...
In people over 50 years of age, fractures are so common that for example one in three women will suffer a wrist, ankle or hip fracture during their life.
View ArticleNJ law mandating dense breasts ultrasound and MR finds more cancer, reduces...
A just published study of a 2014 law that requires insurance companies to pay for supplemental ultrasound and/or MR screening if a woman has dense breasts diagnosed, reveals that it has resulted in...
View ArticleUltrasound Endocavity Probe Cleaning 101
The most important parts of keeping your ultrasound endocavity transducer, or ‘probe’, ready for use is cleaning, disinfection and proper storage.
View ArticleUltrasound Helps Diagnose Gout, Rule Out Pseudogout
Musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS) is emerging as a useful tool for identifying monosodium urate deposition in clinically suspected gout, according to a multi-country study in Arthritis & Rheumatology.
View ArticleIs infection lurking on your ultrasound probe?
About 29% of practitioners don't disinfect ultrasound probes after each patient, 11% of practitioners fail to use a probe cover for transvaginal or transrectal procedures, and 30% don't use sterile gel...
View ArticleSonoDepot at Florida Biomedical Symposium
Find Sonodepot at the 2016 Florida Biomedical Society Symposium, Dec. 8 - 10, 2016 at booth #TBA at Disney’s Yacht Club Resort in Orlando, Fl.
View ArticleUltrasound Endocavity Probe Disinfection 101
In our previous article, Ultrasound Endocavity Probe Cleaning 101, we discussed how to get your ultrasound endocavity transducer free of foreign material and ready for high-level disinfection. If you...
View ArticleNew nonsurgical repair of common heart defect in premature babies is shown to...
Using ultrasound waves, experts have developed a minimally invasive, transcatheter procedure for premature infant patient ductus arteriosus (PDA) closure.
View ArticleNew heart imaging test identifies improved outcomes in patients with amyloidosis
Focusing on a different way of reading a standard ultrasound test, researchers at Boston Medical Center report that they can determine whether cardiac amyloidosis patients are expected to survive after...
View ArticleMethod for using focused ultrasound to noninvasively ablate tumors in deep...
Researchers from Moscow, in cooperation with the University of Washington have developed a method of designing therapeutic transducers that use nonlinear focused ultrasound for noninvasive ablation of...
View ArticleCU Boulder developed a noninvasive way for athletes to measure muscle energy...
A new ultrasound device developed by the University of Colorado measures the amount of muscle glycogen athletes have in real-time to determine muscle depletion. Previously, muscle glycogen was only...
View ArticleNeed Fast Ultrasound Repair? Here’s How to Ensure It Gets Done Right.
Has your ultrasound machine been a little buggy, is it damaged, or did it just break down? Whether your ultrasound equipment needs a refreshing or repair, it can be a challenge to find a quality...
View ArticleSonoDepot at the 40th Annual Advanced Ultrasound Seminar: OB/GYN w/ GoPro...
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View ArticleNew Ultrasound Approach Used to Image Inside Living Cells
The University of Nottingham researchers recently developed a groundbreaking approach which instead of using light, uses sound to see inside live cells.
View ArticleScientists Develop Miniature Ultrasound Device
An original device that is tiny enough to fit into a contact lens may lead the way for a technique to conduct ultrasounds and other scientific applications.
View ArticleDementia treatment hope after ultrasound and drug technique breakthrough
Scientists at Queensland Brain Institute find noninvasive technique slows progression of Alzheimer’s disease in mice.
View ArticleInitial Alzheimer's Trial with Focused Ultrasound Commences
Researchers at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto have opened the world’s very first clinical trial assessing the possibility and safety of opening the blood-brain barrier in patients with...
View ArticleStudy reveals Ultrasound better than X-ray for children with broken arms
A recent study has found ultrasound is accurate, faster and less painful in assessing children for potential broken arms than traditional X-rays.
View ArticleUltrasound suggested as first choice for diagnosing muscle hernia
Ultrasound has outperformed MRI in a minor Chinese study focused on muscle hernias...
View ArticleUltrasound Used to Determine Prenatal Brain Damage Caused by the Zika Virus
Because ultrasound technology uses sound waves to generate an image, it’s safe for examining particular parts of a baby still in the womb, including the brain and hips.
View ArticleChildren’s ERs choosing ultrasound over CT Scans for abdominal pain; general...
Pediatric patients with nontraumatic stomach pain are less likely to receive CT scans—and more likely to be imaged with ultrasound instead—in pediatric emergency departments than their peers taken to...
View ArticleUltrasound Helps Find Seizure Sites in Newborn Brains
Researchers in Europe have joined ultrafast ultrasound with electroencephalography (EEG) to localize seizure locations in the brain microvasculature of newborn babies whose cortexes had developed...
View ArticleResearchers Utilize Ultrasound Technology to Help Amputees get Greater...
There's hope for a better life for people who've lost an arm or leg, thanks to new research funded by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense.
View ArticleFocused Ultrasound Could Offer Non-Invasive Treatment For Neurological Diseases
A recent study has proposed evidence showing how ultrasound could be a non-invasive form of treatment for patients with neurological diseases such as Parkinson's, epilepsy and depression...
View ArticleCombining Blood Tests with Ultrasound Improves Detection of Liver Cancer,...
Researchers at University of Texas Southwestern's Simmons Cancer Center have discovered that combining ultrasound imaging with a blood test for levels of alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) improves the detection...
View ArticleSpring Special: One Hour of Professional Ultrasound Corrective Maintenance...
Does your ultrasound need some TLC? Now through Thursday, June 21st, take advantage of our Spring Special...
View ArticleUsing Ultrasound to Reduce Tremors in Parkinson's and Dyskinesia
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided focused ultrasound on the brain used to treat Parkinson's disease (PD) could also prove promising for dyskinesia treatment, results from a phase 3 study suggest.
View ArticleUltrasound Guidelines Can Accurately Distinguish Between Pediatric Thyroid...
A Loyola Medicine study has discovered that new ultrasound guidelines can reliably identify pediatric patients who should be biopsied for thyroid cancer.
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View ArticleUltrasound Remotely Bursts Heat-Sensitive Capsules, Supplying Drugs Directly...
An encouraging new cancer drug delivery system has successfully passed initial human safety trials. The treatment carries cancer drugs in heat-activated capsules to tumors in the liver and then uses a...
View ArticleUltrasound Could Improve Early Detection of Vascular Diseases
Ultrasound conducted before a patient develops symptoms could increase early detection of diseases in blood vessels, research led by the University of Leicester has revealed.
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View ArticleNew Study Finds That Prostate Cancer Ultrasound Treatment Is As Effective As...
A new study, conducted by six hospitals across the UK, tracked 625 men with prostate cancer who received a type of treatment called high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU).
View ArticleFocused Ultrasound Shows Promise in Halting Parkinson’s Disease Tremors
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine looked at how brain surgery, using focused ultrasound, affected Parkinson's patients.
View ArticleUltrasounds Effective in Identifying Muscle Problems from Steroid Myopathy,...
Ultrasound scans can be useful to monitor muscle changes in patients with glucocorticoid-induced muscle disease or steroid myopathy, and may possibly become an effective routine procedure for those...
View ArticleProgressive Ultrasound Treatment to Counter Dementia Moves to Human Trials
A promising new technique using ultrasound to clear the toxic protein clumps thought to cause dementia and Alzheimer's disease is moving to the first phase of human trials this year.
View ArticleOhio State Conducts World’s First Study Using Focused Ultrasound To Treat...
In a first in its kind clinical trial, researchers at The Ohio State University College of Medicine are studying how well-focused ultrasound surgery works in adults with a particular type of epilepsy...
View ArticleUltrasound Delivers Precise, Minimally Invasive Way to Measure Heart Function...
Findings published in the Online First edition of Anesthesiology, the peer-reviewed medical journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), explains how a novel minimally invasive method...
View ArticleMeasuring Clinical vs Ultrasound Findings of Ankle Pain in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Ultrasound effectively recognized joint and tendon inflammatory involvement at the ankle level in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), which clarifies the reason for ankle pain when present,...
View ArticleProximal vs Distal Ultrasound-Guided Method for Greater Occipital Nerve Block...
Achieving greater occipital nerve (GON) block in patients who suffer from chronic migraines was found to be comparably effective using a proximal or a distal ultrasound (US)-guided technique for easing...
View ArticleHow Focused Ultrasound Could Help Curb Parkinson's
A new approach that uses ultrasound beams and microbubbles could be a noninvasive way to deliver drugs safely to particular locations in the brain.
View ArticleUltrasound Approach Monitors Drug Dose, Delivery Location in Brain
A new ultrasound method called Passive Cavitation Imaging (PCI) can create an image approximating the amount of a drug that has crossed the blood-brain barrier (BBB), based on new research conducted at...
View ArticleUltrasound guidance improves first-attempt IV success in IV access in children
Physicians who used ultrasound to guide the placement of intravenous (IV) lines in young patients had better first-attempt success rates than those who used conventional methods, according to a study...
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