In adults, a ≥10 mm difference in the lengths of the right and left kidneys on ultrasound is considered predictive of renal pathology. Khazaei et al. sought to determine a cutoff point at which ...

In the first two of these applications, the vibrations caused by the ultrasound shake apart the dirt or kidney stones, breaking them up. The principle is the same as the opera singer's trick ...

Patients experience debilitating pain when kidney stones become stuck in the urinary tract. A relatively new ultrasound probe procedure has the highest success rate for breaking down kidney stones ...

In both of these applications, the vibrations caused by the ultrasound shake apart the dirt or kidney stones, breaking them up. The principle is the same as the opera singer's trick, where a glass ...

Kidney stones, those painful crystalline formations in your urinary system, might soon be defeated by an innovative medical technique combining two ultrasound technologies. This approach ...

Skoltech researchers and their colleagues have synthesized and tested protein-polymer microbubbles for use in medical ultrasound imaging of internal organs. Administered intravenously, the ...