Tag: Ultrasound

  • Wearable ultrasound to detect early breast cancer

    Wearable ultrasound to detect early breast cancer

    MIT’s Canan Dagdeviren has developed a flexible ultrasound patch that can be attached to a bra, obtaining ultrasound images with resolution comparable to medical imaging centers, and used repeatedly. Interval cancers, which develop between regularly scheduled mammograms, account for 20 – 30 percent of all breast cancers, and tend to be more aggressive. The goal…

  • Implanted ultrasound allows powerful chemotherapy drugs to cross the blood brain barrier

    Implanted ultrasound allows powerful chemotherapy drugs to cross the blood brain barrier

    Adam Sonaband and Northwestern colleages used a skull-implantable ultrasound device to open the blood-brain barrier and repeatedly permeate critical regions of the human brain, to deliver intravenous chemotherapy to glioblastoma patients. This is the first study to successfully quantify the effect of ultrasound-based blood-brain barrier opening on the concentrations of chemotherapy in the human brain.…

  • Wearable cardiac ultrasound continuously monitors heart structure, function for 24 hours

    Wearable cardiac ultrasound continuously monitors heart structure, function for 24 hours

    UCSD professor Sheng Xu has developed a wearable ultrasound device that can continuously monitor and assess the structure and function of the human heart for 24 hours, during normal daily activity. This could eliminate the need for highly trained technicians and bulky devices.  Signs of cardiac diseases are transient and unpredictable, and imaging can detect…

  • Focused ultrasound thalamotomy in Parkinson’s Disease

    Focused ultrasound thalamotomy in Parkinson’s Disease

    UVA’s Scott Sperling and Jeff Elias, who already used focused ultrasound to treat essential tremor, have just published the results of  a small study showing the efficacy of the technology in Parkinson’s Disease. The sound waves were shown to interrupt brain circuits responsible for the uncontrollable shaking associated with the disease. The researchers claim that their study…