then used functional ultrasound imaging (fUSI) to collect high-resolution brain imaging data through the window. Their preliminary findings, published in Science Translational Medicine ...

which can destroy the tiny piece of brain tissue causing the tremor without even opening up the skull. The surgery is done using ultrasound – simple sound waves, but concentrated so much that ...

While ultrasound has been widely used for medical imaging, it also has a variety of ... in specific locations in the body, including the brain, has been challenging. Researchers have tackled ...

The device used ultrasound to create three-dimensional maps of brain activity with a spatial resolution much higher than standard imaging methods like fMRI. Focused ultrasound stimulation has ...

The department’s biomedical optics and imaging research focuses on the development of lasers ... to image physiological processes and anatomical structures. Research in the Brain Stimulation ...

Magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound is a treatment option for patients with essential tremor or tremor-dominant Parkinson's disease who have not benefited from medication or are not willing ...

uses MRI technology to guide ultrasound waves in real time to precise locations in the brain. The high-intensity ultrasound energy treats the tissue causing the symptoms. While the procedure does ...

Ultrasound scans for pregnant women could cause brain damage in their unborn babies, research warns. Doctors found that men born to mothers who underwent scanning were more likely to show signs of ...

Contrast agents are a good solution: They can noticeably improve the quality of the images of internal organs during ultrasound exams of the heart, liver, brain, etc. Using other imaging ...

Researchers and physicians at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) are the first ...

"We're combining the use of ultrasound and microbubbles to help modulate brain immunology with the ... we could manipulate the beam to go from imaging to a therapeutic sequence.

“The amount of imaging and style of imaging has ... says for Azheimer’s patients, the ultrasound shakes up the blood-brain barrier enough to allow the amyloid plaque that builds up in the ...