When a pacemaker's battery gets low, the whole implant typically has to be surgically replaced. Scientists are therefore developing a noninvasive battery recharging system, which utilizes externally ...

Ultrasound neuromodulation, as a technique for controlling neural activity, has garnered increasing attention in recent years. However, when transmitted externally, ultrasound encounters significant ...

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 ...

Ultrasound is an established way to image biological tissues, traditionally using arrays of electronic transducers to both generate and receive the ultrasonic signals. An all-optical variant of the ...

Formalin fixation and paraffin embedding are conventional tissue preservation and processing methods used for histologic diagnosis in over 90% of cases. However, formalin fixation has three ...

Engineer George Lewis would like to move the soothing pain relief of ultrasound out of the doctor’s office and into your medicine cabinet. The biomedical engineering student, who is about to receive ...

Fiber-generated ultrasound technologies have been widely used in medical and industrial areas. In spinal fusion surgeries, over 20% of the patients suffer from screw misplacement. The orthopedic spine ...

One area of medical research that has been gaining a lot of attention is shear-wave elastography imaging. This technique has enormous potential for medical diagnosis due to its higher contrast ...

Fig. 1 | An implantable fiber-optic photoacoustic neurostimulator. (a) Schematic illustration of the FPE. (b) Broadband ultrasonic excitation of FPE, b1: time-domain and frequency-domain ultrasound ...