When you hear "brain-computer interface," you probably picture surgery, wires and a chip in your head. Now picture something quieter. No implant. No incision. Just sound waves directed at the brain.

During a night shift when she was a resident at Yale New Haven Hospital, Cristiana Baloescu was taking care of a patient with a complex presentation of symptoms. The patient was experiencing some back ...

Samsung Healthcare unveiled a new ultrasound system this week designed to boost diagnostic accuracy and efficiency. The system, named the R20, finally brings the full weight of Samsung Electronics’ AI ...

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 ...

Pulsing ultrasound waves through the brain could improve survival after a type of stroke by helping to clear out inflammatory dead blood cells, according to a study in mice. The approach, which ...

PATKIT provides tools for phonetic analysis of speech data. It includes a GUI for manual assessment/analysis/annotation (see picture above), command line tools for ...

A person's own voice might soon be a means of detecting whether they're suffering throat cancer, a new study says. Men with cancer of the larynx, or voice box, have distinct differences in their ...

Philips is rolling out what it describes as a next-generation point-of-care ultrasound system designed specifically for critical care environments such as emergency rooms, intensive care units and ...

Ultrasound therapy is emerging as a potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. It uses ultrasound to open the blood-brain barrier, which can help with drug delivery and may also reduce plaques from ...

If you are a parent, then you probably first laid eyes on your child through an ultrasound procedure—the technology that uses high-frequency sound waves to view soft tissue. It is undeniably one of ...

After several years of investigating focused ultrasound as a tool in treating Alzheimer's, the field took a big leap forward this year. Elisa Konofagou, PhD, a biomedical engineer who runs the ...