Ultrasound technologies for imaging and modulating neural activity

C Rabut, S Yoo, RC Hurt, Z Jin, H Li, H Guo, B Ling… - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
Visualizing and perturbing neural activity on a brain-wide scale in model animals and
humans is a major goal of neuroscience technology development. Established electrical and …

[HTML][HTML] Recent ultrasound advancements for the manipulation of nanobiomaterials and nanoformulations for drug delivery

SS Low, CN Lim, M Yew, WS Chai, LE Low… - Ultrasonics …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent advances in ultrasound (US) have shown its great potential in biomedical
applications as diagnostic and therapeutic tools. The coupling of US-assisted drug delivery …

Transcranial ultrafast ultrasound localization microscopy of brain vasculature in patients

C Demené, J Robin, A Dizeux, B Heiles… - Nature biomedical …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in cerebral blood flow are associated with stroke, aneurysms, vascular
cognitive impairment, neurodegenerative diseases and other pathologies. Brain …

A fast all-optical 3D photoacoustic scanner for clinical vascular imaging

NT Huynh, E Zhang, O Francies, F Kuklis… - Nature Biomedical …, 2024 - nature.com
The clinical assessment of microvascular pathologies (in diabetes and in inflammatory skin
diseases, for example) requires the visualization of superficial vascular anatomy …

Functional ultrasound neuroimaging

G Montaldo, A Urban, E Macé - Annual Review of Neuroscience, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Functional ultrasound (fUS) is a neuroimaging method that uses ultrasound to track changes
in cerebral blood volume as an indirect readout of neuronal activity at high spatiotemporal …

Photoacoustic computed tomography for functional human brain imaging

S Na, LV Wang - Biomedical Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
The successes of magnetic resonance imaging and modern optical imaging of human brain
function have stimulated the development of complementary modalities that offer molecular …

Single-trial decoding of movement intentions using functional ultrasound neuroimaging

SL Norman, D Maresca, VN Christopoulos, WS Griggs… - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
New technologies are key to understanding the dynamic activity of neural circuits and
systems in the brain. Here, we show that a minimally invasive approach based on …

Safe surgery for glioblastoma: Recent advances and modern challenges

JKW Gerritsen, MLD Broekman… - Neuro-oncology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
One of the major challenges during glioblastoma surgery is balancing between maximizing
extent of resection and preventing neurological deficits. Several surgical techniques and …

Whole-brain functional ultrasound imaging in awake head-fixed mice

C Brunner, M Grillet, A Urban, B Roska, G Montaldo… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Most brain functions engage a network of distributed regions. Full investigation of these
functions thus requires assessment of whole brains; however, whole-brain functional …

Improving plane wave ultrasound imaging through real-time beamformation across multiple arrays

J Foiret, X Cai, H Bendjador, EY Park, A Kamaya… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Ultrasound imaging is a widely used diagnostic tool but has limitations in the imaging of
deep lesions or obese patients where the large depth to aperture size ratio (f-number) …