A conference consensus statement on ultrasound imaging of superficial soft-tissue masses aims to help radiologists and other clinicians differentiate between benign lumps and bumps, those that need ...

How do you precisely move something you can’t see with your own eyes, let alone touch? Physically manipulating individual cells remains a challenge. Optical tweezers offer one solution to this and use ...

Ultrasound works by sending sound waves through the body. Doctors can recommend ultrasound therapy to treat pain. It may work best alongside other treatments. Many people know ultrasound as an imaging ...

A liver ultrasound is a noninvasive test that produces images of a person’s liver and its blood vessels. A liver ultrasound can help diagnose various conditions that affect the liver, such as fatty ...

A liver ultrasound uses high-frequency sound waves to create real-time images of your liver and blood vessels. Doctors use it to confirm or rule out liver disease. Doctors often order a liver ...

Although endometriosis sometimes shows up on an ultrasound, it doesn’t always. If a doctor thinks you have endometriosis, laparoscopic surgery is the only way to definitively diagnose it.

Ultrasounds are a critical part of modern health care, helping to image soft tissue and organs, measure blood flow, and monitor fetal development. But the technique has constraints, including a ...

The image shows that the combination of sonosensitiser and ultrasound offers a ‘non-antibiotic’ strategy to efficiently kill bacteria in laboratory experiments. Antibiotics have been a marvel for us.