Focused ultrasound from outside the body can safely and reversibly open the blood–brain barrier in patients with Alzheimer’s disease, researchers in Canada have shown for the first time. The technique ...

A new way of creating specially shaped pulses of ultrasound using light and a 3D printer has been unveiled by Michael Brown and colleagues at University College London. The pulses, which are creating ...

A new copper "metamaterial" can overcome some of the limitations of acoustic microscopes and imagers, including ultrasound imagers. Researchers have designed and built a metamaterial that improves the ...

This week is International Medical Physics Week 2021, which runs from 26-30 April and recognises the important contributions that physics has made to the field of medicine. Medical physics is the ...

Have you ever needed an ultrasound only to see an image that makes absolutely no sense to the average viewer? Of course, doctors and clinicians can read them without issue (thankfully), but even so, a ...