Ultrasound imaging is a significant medical imaging method that has been used as a diagnostic tool in medicine for many years. The reason for its popularity is due to the facts that it is non-invasive ...

Ultrasound can be used for industrial inspection and automation - the technology is similar to the one know from medical ultrasonic imaging. Piezoelectric ultrasonic transducers also find applications ...

The need for more portable and lower cost medical ultrasound imaging equipment is having a significant impact on its design. This application note reviews some of the more recent advances in analog ...

A new review article unveils the world of flexible micromachined ultrasound transducers (MUTs), an emerging technology at the intersection of wearables, ultrasound, and MEMS. These cutting-edge ...

Nevada Sanchez, co-founder of Butterfly Network, talks to Machine Design about the organization making life-saving technology available to frontline healthcare workers in the developing world. In ...

Before humans discovered ultrasound for a variety of medical, technical and military applications, nature had perfected it over millions of years for navigation under and above water. Dolphins and ...

Ultrasound inspection is a non-destructive testing method that detects electrical emissions and mechanical conditions in equipment. Predictive and proactive inspection of rotating equipment is ...

German research incubator Fraunhofer IPMS is working on a portable cuff that can be used to detect deep vein thrombosis (DVT) using ultrasound scanning from CMUTs – capacitive micromachined ultrasonic ...

High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is a breakthrough therapeutic technique used to treat tumors. The principle of this noninvasive, targeted treatment is much like that of focusing sunlight ...