A device that can perform 3D ultrasound imaging with just one large piezoelectric ultrasound transmitter and receiver has been developed by researchers in the Netherlands. Most ultrasound imagers use ...

Physicists in France have generated supersonic sound waves in human tissue for the first time by exploiting the acoustic equivalent of Cerenkov radiation – the light emitted by charged particles when ...

In a proof-of-concept study, researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the California Institute of Technology ...

To understand the uses and limitations of ultrasound in the evaluation of breast disease, one must have a basic understanding of the physics and principles of ultrasound as well as the instrumentation ...

Scientists have developed a quadruple fusion optical and ultrasound imaging system using a transparent ultrasound transducer. A quadruple fusion optical and ultrasound imaging system has been ...

The IAEA has recently published the ‘Diagnostic Radiology Physics: A Handbook for Teachers and Students’, aiming at providing the basis for the education of medical physicists initiating their ...

Alternatively, data from all transducers can be used while limiting the focal depth, allowing more transmit-receive pulses to ...

Piezoelectric nanoparticles deployed inside immune cells and stimulated remotely by ultrasound can trigger the body's disease ...