Both ultrasound for medical imaging and seismology for imaging the Earth's interior measure the propagation of waves through matter. For example, when seismic waves encounter material differences in ...

Histotripsy is a new, FDA-approved, minimally invasive technique that destroys liver tumors using high-frequency ultrasound waves. For some patients with liver cancer, they could be spared invasive ...

Scientists have boosted the motility of sluggish sperm by up to 266%, by blasting the cells with noninvasive, 40-MHz ultrasound waves to induce movement. Capturing the technique's impact on individual ...

Advances in ultrasound—the same imaging technology that uses sound waves to allow doctors to monitor babies in utero—are being applied by engineers at the University of California San Diego to make ...

Chemotherapy treatments produce strong side effects. A new agent that accumulates in the tumor tissue and is activated there by ultrasound waves does not have this problem. Platinum complexes are ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A new technology may allow physicians to use ultrasound waves to push kidney stones out of a patient’s body ...

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the U.S., second only to heart disease. But a new cancer treatment method from CU Boulder researchers uses sound waves to soften tumors and could be a ...

How do you precisely move something you can’t see with your own eyes, let alone touch? Physically manipulating individual cells remains a challenge. Optical tweezers offer one solution to this and use ...

Researchers have developed a new ultrasound method that can, for the first time, measure tension in human tissue, potentially revolutionizing disease diagnosis. An ultrasound device emits ...

Elsa Fouragnan receives funding from the UKRI Medical Research Council Future Leaders Fellowship and the BBSRC grant (MR/T023007/1 and BB/Y001494/1). One in four people has a mental disorder, ...

Ever wondered why you’re asked to hold your pee before an ultrasound A doctor explains how a full bladder helps to get the clearest possible view of your internal organs ...