Ultrasound articles from across Nature Portfolio

A hair-thin fibre-optic imaging system that can image the mechanical properties of single-cellular and multi-cellular organisms in 3D with sufficient resolution to identify 300 nm structures in the C. elegans cuticle.

Ultrasound localisation microscopy enables deep tissue microvascular imaging. Here, authors introduce LOCA-ULM, a deep learning pipeline enhancing localisation accuracy in high microbubble concentrations. LOCA-ULM reveals dense cerebrovascular networks and enhances the sensitivity of functional ULM.

Transparent ultrasound transducers suffer from practical limitations due to acoustic impedance mismatch. By using a transparent adhesive based on silicon dioxide epoxy, the authors demonstrate a broadband, ultrasensitive transparent ultrasound transducer, advancing the possibilities of sensor fusion.

A new study in Science reports a synthetic biology approach to encode an ultrasound-based gene expression reporter that is applicable to mammalian cells in vitro and in vivo.

Functional ultrasound imaging enables unbiased identification of behaviorally relevant brain regions across the whole brain.

A clinical study shows the feasibility and safety of the intratumoral release of an anticancer drug encapsulated in thermosensitive liposomes by heating the patient’s tumour via focused ultrasound.

A technique combining focused ultrasound for opening the blood–brain barrier and virally encoded engineered G-protein-coupled receptors for promoting the expression of a gene targeting excitatory neurons enables the non-invasive stimulation of specific brain regions and cell types in mice.