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Current Research
RCBU laboratories are advancing the use of ultrasound in clinical diagnosis and discovering new therapeutic applications of ultrasound in medicine and biology. Innovations in biomedical ultrasound require the collaborative expertise of engineers, physicians, basic scientists and clinicians. The RCBU provides an ideal forum to stimulate cross-disciplinary research.
Investigators at the RCBU are advancing the use of ultrasound in diagnosis and therapy. Areas of current RCBU research expertise include:
Research Projects
- Sonoelastography
- 3D and 4D ultrasound imaging
- Acoustic radiation force imaging
- Harmonic imaging
- Nonlinear acoustics
- Novel therapeutic applications
- Biological effects of ultrasound fields
- Tissue characterization
- Ultrasound technologies in cell and tissue engineering
- Acoustic scattering and wave propagation in tissue
- Ultrasound contrast agents
- Acoustic cavitation
- High frequency imaging
- Lithotripsy
- Multi-modal imaging techniques
- Doppler techniques
- High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) techniques
Recent Pubs
- (2009 Nov 20). US Elastography of Breast and Prostate Lesions. Radiographics. 29, 2007-2016.
- (2009 Nov 05). Outside-in signal transmission by conformational changes in integrin Mac-1. J Immunol. 183, 6460-8.
- (2009 Nov 02). A Computerized Prompt for Thromboprophylaxis in Hospitalized Cancer Patients. Thromb Res.