When Graeme F. Woodworth, MD, decided to focus his research efforts on glioblastomas, “everybody thought it was a dead end,” the neurosurgeon recalled. It wasn’t an unusual path for him. His first job ...

Medical ultrasound is widely known. Cardiologists use it to check the heart is pumping normally. Ophthalmologists use it to check for detached retinas and for tumors. But its most familiar application ...

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Patients with the deadliest form of brain cancer, glioblastoma, who received MRI-guided focused ultrasound with standard-of-care chemotherapy had a nearly 40 percent increase in overall survival in a ...

The first picture taken of a person nowadays is usually an ultrasound scan in the womb. But the technology is capable of much more than that. Physiotherapists have long used ultrasound to heat bodily ...

Getting light deep inside the body has always come with a catch. Tissue scatters and absorbs it, which means doctors and ...

FUS utilizes multiple beams of relatively low-frequency ultrasound (generally within 0.2–3 MHz, depending on the application ...

Engineers at the University of Oxford have built a 256-element helmet-shaped ultrasound transducer that can reach deep brain structures without surgery, selectively shifting neural activity in regions ...

Patients who received a focused ultrasound treatment to aid drug delivery increased their odds of surviving the deadliest form of brain cancer by nearly 40%, according to a study led by University of ...

Current systems emphasize sight and sound, with some progress in haptics. Smell remains largely absent, despite its unusually ...

Patients with the deadliest form of brain cancer, glioblastoma, who received MRI-guided focused ultrasound with standard-of-care chemotherapy had a nearly 40% increase in overall survival in a ...