What about ultrasound?

It's actually emitting ultrasound low level ultrasound that's about 100,000 vibrations per second.

Okay, so let's talk a little bit about ultrasound, the force of ultrasound.

You see the transducer, the light blue.

Radio and ultrasound equipment (Luxembourg)

There's water in between the skull and the transducer.

On the right hand side, you see an ultrasonic transducer.

Yoav Medan Ultrasound surgery healing without cuts

So let's first talk about focused ultrasound.

So I went in for an ultrasound.

I'd like you to have an ultrasound.

We attach a transducer, in this case, to the brain, but if it will be a different organ, it will be a different transducer attached to the patient.

You know all about imaging, right, ultrasound imaging.

This is much sharper than an ultrasound would be.

Radiology and ultrasound equipment, Khan Younis Health Centre (Luxembourg)

This is an MR suite with a focused ultrasound system.

They were the first to be treated by focused ultrasound.

Balance at 1 January 1996 ultrasound machine Microsoft Middle East

So it consists of two parts, what we call an encoder and a transducer.

So the ultrasonic transducer emits basically an ultrasonic beam that focuses inside the phantom.

So the handheld ultrasound is basically surpassing and supplanting the stethoscope.

So she elected to undergo a focused ultrasound procedure in 2008.

Radiological Unit and ultrasound equipment for Khan Younis Health Centre, Gaza

And if you took an ultrasound of that area, it would look great.

So, when we did this for responses from the standard method and from our encoder and transducer.

Bear in mind this was an ultrasound, so it would have been moving images.

But ultrasound can be shaped to be anything in between, because it's a mechanical force.

Ultrasound generates more biopsies that are unnecessary relative to other technologies, so it's not widely used.

One is the focused ultrasound, and the other one is the vision enabled magnetic resonance imaging.

But the key one really is the encoder alone, because we can team up the encoder with the different transducer.

The pressure is recorded by a pressure transducer(s) capable of recording slow and fast (at least 1000 points sec.

The hospital did not have an ultrasound device and its equipment was at least 20 years old.

First, ultrasound we're very familiar with it from physical therapy it's also now being used to treat cancer.

Using 3D ultrasound technology, we can now see that developing babies appear to smile, even in the womb.

So this idea of harnessing focused ultrasound to treat lesions in the brain is not new at all.

Using 3D ultrasound technology, we can now see that developing babies appear to smile, even in the womb.

When the immobilized biological material attaches to, or reacts with, an analyte, the fact of that event is transmitted to the transducer.

So on the left is the encoder alone, and on the right is from an actual blind retina, so the encoder and the transducer.

We can prevent, or have the earliest detection possible, for breast cancer with an ultrasound device given to the patient.

One of the neurological conditions that can be treated with focused ultrasound are movement disorders, like Parkinson's or essential tremor.

But you may not know that he tried to perform lobotomies in the brain, noninvasively, with focused ultrasound in the '50s.

All those I've indicated have already been shown to be successfully treated by focused ultrasound relieving the pain, again, very fast.

Alright. I'm going to show you a couple of images from a very diverting paper in The Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.

It is approved under an FDAIDE at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville using focused ultrasound to ablate a point in his thalamus.

So you can change the intensity, the frequency, the duration, the pulse shape of the ultrasound to create anything from an airbrush to a hammer.