This paper is based on material presented at the start of a Health Protection Agency meeting
on ultrasound and infrasound. In answering the question 'what is ultrasound?', it shows that …

Modern sophisticated ultrasonographic equipment is capable of delivering substantial levels
of acoustic energy into the body when used at maximum outputs. The risk of producing …

We demonstrated the in vivo feasibility of using focused ultrasound (FUS) to transiently
modulate (through either stimulation or suppression) the function of regional brain tissue in …

A method of acoustic remote palpation, capable of imaging local variations in the
mechanical properties of tissue, is under investigation. In this method, focused ultrasound is …

Histotripsy is a therapy that focuses short-duration, high-amplitude pulses of ultrasound to
incite a localized cavitation cloud that mechanically breaks down tissue. To investigate the …

The propagation of ultrasonic waves is nonlinear. Phenomena associated with the
propagation of diagnostic ultrasound pulses cannot be predicted using linear assumptions …

We investigated the use of pulsed low-intensity focused ultrasound (FUS) to suppress the
visual neural response induced by light stimulation in rodents. FUS was administered …

Over the past decades, different techniques have been investigated for detecting
microbubbles. The purpose of this work is to review the state-of-the-art of medical …

Focused ultrasound (FUS) with microbubbles can temporally open the blood-brain barrier
(BBB), and the cavitation activities of microbubbles play a key role in the BBB-opening …

Objective: Low-frequency low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) has emerged as a non-
invasive neuromodulation tool. The aim of this study is to examine whether LIPUS …