When a pacemaker's battery gets low, the whole implant typically has to be surgically replaced. Scientists are therefore developing a noninvasive battery recharging system, which utilizes externally ...
Ultrasound neuromodulation, as a technique for controlling neural activity, has garnered increasing attention in recent years. However, when transmitted externally, ultrasound encounters significant ...
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 ...
Formalin fixation and paraffin embedding are conventional tissue preservation and processing methods used for histologic diagnosis in over 90% of cases. However, formalin fixation has three ...
In the lab University of Connecticut researchers (from left to right): Kazem Kazerounian, Thanh Nguyen, Feng Lin, Thinh Le, Meysam Chorsi and Horea Ilies. The biodegradable ultrasonic transducer is ...
Fig. 1 | An implantable fiber-optic photoacoustic neurostimulator. (a) Schematic illustration of the FPE. (b) Broadband ultrasonic excitation of FPE, b1: time-domain and frequency-domain ultrasound ...