Kidney stones can cause sudden and intense pain, often sending people straight to the emergency room. Once symptoms begin, the next important step is confirming the diagnosis through imaging tests.

Sometimes all it takes is a little push. That is the conclusion of a recently published study in which doctors used a handheld ultrasound device to nudge patients' kidney-stone fragments. As many as ...

Super-resolution ultrasound microvascular imaging, known as ultrasound localization microscopy, was a safe, reliable, and reproducible noninvasive imaging method that quantified intrarenal ...

A research team at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) has investigated kidney diseases using ultrafast ultrasound that captures 1,000 images in just one second. The research team ...

The Break Wave system for extracorporeal lithotripsy via ultrasound showed early efficacy with minimal anesthesia in a pilot trial. In a separate trial, ultrasonic propulsion repositioned and ...

Sepsis-associated acute kidney injury (SA-AKI) remains a major clinical challenge due to the lack of effective targeted therapies. In this study, we designed ultrasound-responsive, renal-targeted ...

Picture this: a painless, radiation-free scan that can look inside your body in real time. From monitoring pregnancies to detecting heart problems, ultrasound radiology quietly powers millions of ...

What began as a volunteer moment in a medical school ultrasound class turned into a life-changing discovery for third year medical student, Hannah Schultz — one that reshaped her health, education and ...