Ultrasound as a therapeutic modality has been around for over 75 years, yet with many recent advances in diagnostic imaging and ultrasound probe design, there are seemingly endless applications for ...

Ultrasound is a mechanical pressure wave with a frequency above the range of human hearing (>20 kHz) that is increasingly used as a diagnostic, surgical, neuromodulation and drug delivery tool ...

Ultrasound can’t detect stomach ulcers as easily as other methods, like upper endoscopy. But since ultrasound is noninvasive, it might be beneficial in some situations, like detecting large ulcers or ...

Ultrasound can do a whole lot more than create images of unborn babies. Since it first became a near-indispensable medical tool in the 1930s, technology that produces sound waves so high-pitched that ...

A liver biopsy is a diagnostic procedure that samples a person’s liver tissue to check for any abnormalities. Specialists, such as imaging physicians and diagnostic medical sonographers, may use an ...

Husker engineer Nitesh Nama has earned a five-year, nearly $550,000 National Science Foundation grant to develop open-source ...

A pregnancy ultrasound is a test that uses high-frequency sound waves to image the developing baby as well as the mother’s reproductive organs. The average number of ultrasounds varies with each ...