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.

Radio and ultrasound equipment (Luxembourg)

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

The indicator for an ultrasound study performed in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy is 80 in cities and 15 or under in rural areas. sic

This device has been implanted into the muscle and peripheral nerve of rats, and uses ultrasound as energy source, which is also used to read collected data.

I'm going to go way out on a limb and say that it is the most diverting paper ever published in The Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.

So we picked up on that and we said, You know, we now have the ability to look inside human beings with these special catheters called IVUS intravascular ultrasound.

Here is an example of an abdominal ultrasound, and also a cardiac echo, which can be sent wireless, and then there's an example of fetal monitoring on your smartphone.

We're also starting ancillary health care technology training programs training people in echocardiography, cardiac ultrasound, those kinds of things. Now, with that kind of training, it gives people motivation.

Despite being illegal, ultrasound sex determination tests are being used across India to identify for abortion extraordinary numbers of healthy female fetuses. But there are serious concerns about legal operations, too.

In this village, we provided medication and ultrasound B service, while in another village, Qiu Jia Dian Zi Village of Hu Bu Town of Wulian County, free medical service was provided by the service team.

An effect happens in the air, it's a corrupting effect of the sound the ultrasound in this case that's emitted, but it's so predictable that you can produce very precise audio out of that effect.

The author of this paper explained that the crystal converts the vibration of ultrasound emitted outside the human body into electricity to drive a tiny transistor, which is directly attached to a nerve or muscle fibers, inside the device.

Imagine having a surgery with no knives involved. At TEDMED, Yoav Medan shares a technique that uses MRI to find trouble spots and focused ultrasound to treat such issues as brain lesions, uterine fibroids and several kinds of cancerous growths.