Fantastic Breakthrough In The Medical Field With New HD Ultrasound Technology
This new development could be a fantastic breakthrough in the medical field if it does come to fruition fully. Scientists have been carrying out tests on rats that produce high-resolution images of the entire blood vessel network inside a tiny rat’s brain with the use of ultrasound.
This new development could be a fantastic breakthrough in the medical field if it does come to fruition fully. Scientists have been carrying out tests on rats that produce high-resolution images of the entire blood vessel network inside a tiny rat’s brain with the use of ultrasound.
The way the researchers carried out the procedure involved injecting the mice with millions of tiny bubbles, then by using high-frequency ultrasound waves that were emitted through the rat’s skin to cause a reflection that scatters the ultrasound waves. The way in which the scientists managed to achieve such a high resolution was by scanning at an extremely high rate (around 500 frames per second).
By capturing the images at super fast speed, the researchers gathered 75,000 images of the rat’s blood vessel network in just two and a half minutes. Once the images were compared and subtracted from the previous one, the team were left with a clear picture of each individual bubble. From here, the bubbles could be tracked to enable scientists to see the flow of the blood through the vessels and the direction it’s traveling.
This technique could potentially be used for diagnosing cancer or stroke patients or tracking the development of tumors. Clinical experiments have already begun for using the method in liver scans. Developing this use of ultrasound to make better diagnosis’ and better understand some medical conditions is an excellent way to help millions of people and could soon be at a clinic near you.
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Rachel Kowalski
Rachel Kowalski is the Cybersecurity Analyst at TrendinTech, where she covers vulnerabilities, ransomware, supply chain attacks, nation-state operations and the security rules shaping organizations in the United States and Europe. Before moving into journalism she worked as a threat intelligence analyst at a security vendor and later reported for CyberScoop and the security desk at Wired, covering the SolarWinds compromise and the ransomware wave that hit hospitals and pipelines. Rachel holds a Master of Science in Cybersecurity from the Georgia Institute of Technology and attends Black Hat and DEF CON in Las Vegas each year, where she follows research from the security community. She writes to make risks and countermeasures understandable to people who are not specialists.
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