Abstract Neurostimulation with closed-loop interaction is one of the clinical solutions for patients drug-resistant epilepsy. However, there are growing demands an epilepsy control system minimal invasiveness. Transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) a promising non-invasive neuromodulation technique controlling epileptic seizures due to its superior spatial specificity and depth penetrability. H...

Kallmann syndrome (KS) patients carrying FGFR1 mutations can transmit the disorder to their offspring as can asymptomatic female carriers of mutations in KAL1. We describe for the first time two cases in which KS was suspected during fetal life because of the family context and malformation detection by fetal ultrasound: syndactyly or unilateral renal agenesis in subjects with respectively FGFR...

Transcranial Doppler ultrasound allows measurements of blood flow velocity to be made from the basal intracerebral vessels. The major advantages of transcranial Doppler ultrasound are that it is non-invasive, relatively cheap, can be performed with portable machines, allows monitoring for prolonged periods, and has a high temporal resolution making it ideal for studying dynamic cerebrovascular ...

For many years the lung has been considered off-limits for ultrasound. However, it has been recently shown that lung ultrasound (LUS) may represent a useful tool for the evaluation of many pulmonary conditions in cardiovascular disease. The main application of LUS for the cardiologist is the assessment of B-lines. B-lines are reverberation artifacts, originating from water-thickened pulmonary i...

The weight penalty and maintenance concerns associated with wiring a large number of transducers have to be addressed for widespread field deployment of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) systems. Wireless sensors can simplify such deployment. However, a major limitation of wireless ultrasound sensing technology is the incompatibility between the high frequency of the ultrasound signals and the...

Ultrasound-guided lumbar plexus block through the acoustic window of the lumbar ultrasound trident. Br J Anaesth 2008; 100: 533–7 3 Aksu C, Gurcan Y. Shamrock method may prevent kidney injury. Br J Anaesth 2013 e-letter (http://bja.oxfordjournals.org/forum/topic/ brjana_el%3B9814) 4 Karmakar MK, Li JW, Kwok WH, Soh E, Hadzic A. Sonoanatomy relevant for lumbar plexus block in volunteers correlat...

The Bayesian Computational Sensor Network methodology is applied to small-scale structural health monitoring. A mobile robot, equipped with vision and ultrasound sensors, maps smallscale structures for damage (e.g., holes, cracks) by localizing itself and the damage in the map. The combination of vision and ultrasound reduces the uncertainty in damage localization. The data storage and analysis...

Background Breast cancer is the first cause of oncologic female death in western countries [1]. Current medicine is continuously looking for a treatment that is the least invasive and the maximum conservative as possible. Magnetic Resonance guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS) is a non-invasive ablation technique that relies on the use of a high-intensity focused ultrasound beam that can increase...

Background Surgical robotics, machine learning for medical imaging, and focused ultrasound surgery (FUS) have the same long term goals: reducing invasiveness of therapies, augmenting the number of treatable diseases and, more in general, helping the healthcare system in terms of costs and benefits. Potentials from synergies among these fields are undeniable; cross-fertilization are expected to ...