Image: A single image of a human brain using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine. Credit: Dr Leon Kaufman. University Of California, San Francisco A type of ultrasound scan can detect cancer ...

7,8 In the general MRgFUS approach to treating brain tissues with ultrasound, a CT scan is first used to generate ... such as aggressively proliferating tumors. In addition, the demarcation ...

Now, new research shows that ultrasound waves emitted from a device implanted in a cancer patient's skull could be the key to getting chemotherapy and immunotherapy drugs into the brain.

Ultrasound scans for pregnant women could cause brain damage in their unborn babies, research warns. Doctors found that men born to mothers who underwent scanning were more likely to show signs of ...

Glioblastoma is one of the most aggressive cancers, as illustrated by these brain scans from a patient with glioblastoma at initial diagnosis (left) and the same patient with a recurrent tumor ...

Ultrasound, once used almost exclusively to ... a non-invasive and precise way of targeting specific areas of the human brain. This is enabling them to investigate how a technique known as ...