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We tackle various problems of medical diagnostics, therapy and surgery, aeroacoustics, general wave physics, and industrial applications of acoustic waves

Nonlinear wave physics

Nonlinear acoustics equations, broadband signals in nonlinear media, acoustic radiation force

Mechanical tissue disintegration with focused ultrasound (histotripsy)

Development of non-invasive methods for treating tumors, hematomas and neurological diseases

Ultrasound for non-invasive neurosurgery

Development of non-invasive treatment modalities for brain tumors and neurodegenerative diseases

Parametric (directional) sound radiation

Development of numerical algorithms, transducer design

Numerical modeling in acoustics

Software development, acceleration of numerical experiments, parametric sound radiation and nonlinear problems of aeroacoustics

Ultrasonic methods in diagnostics and therapy of the brain

Aberration correction, expansion of available brain area, ultrasound brain diagnostics

Design of high-power ultrasonic phased arrays

Numerical modeling, transducer design, numerical and experimental characterization of the produced fields

Propagation of sound waves in inhomogeneous media

Numerical modeling, development of optimal diagnostic and therapeutic regimes, verification experiments

Thermal ablation of tissues with focused ultrasound (HIFU)

Development of new shock-wave regimes, transducer design, numerical modeling, experiment

Acoustic holography

Development and optimization of new holography methods (fast and nonlinear), field characterization for new transducers

Ultrasonic cavitation

Theoretical and experimental research, development of methods for quantitative cavitation detection

Ultrasonic lung diagnostics

Investigation of physical mechanisms of ultrasound lung diagnostics

Industrial airborne ultrasound

Development of new transducers and their experimental and numerical characterization

Acoustic radiation force

Complex beams impact on millimeter objects, development of new methods for prediction and use of acoustic radiation force

Fragmentation and manipulation of kidney stones

Diagnostics, manipulation and fragmentation of kidney stones

Graphics processors (GPU) in modeling

Calculations optimization and numerical modeling of fields produced by transducers of varied geometry

Optical (Schlieren) visualization of ultrasound fields

Design of new experimental systems, investigation of nonlinear fields produced by transducers of varies geometry

Ultrasound in cosmetology

Development of methods using new physical mechanisms

Measurement of acoustic properties of various media

Development of new methods, design of acoustic systems, investigation of acoustic and elastic properties of various media and biotissues

Ultrasound-assisted biofabrication

Non-invasive manipulation of tissue spheroids for artificial creation of organs and vessels

Ultrasound-assisted targeted drug delivery

Transducer design and numerical modeling of their fields
July 10, 2026

Several victories by young LIMU researchers!

On July 10, 2026, the results of several competitions were announced, resulting in LIMU research fellows Pavel Rosnitsky, Alisa Krokhmal, Anastasia Kvashennikova, and Ekaterina Ponomarchuk receiving RSF grants for young scientists, while A.A. Krokhmal also won the BASIS Foundation special course competition.
June 28, 2026

LIMU visits fellow optoacousticians at IAP RAS

This summer, at the IV All-Russian Acoustic Conference, combined with the XXXVIII session of the Russian Scientific and Technical Acoustic Society, in Nizhny Novgorod, the LIMU team had the opportunity to visit the Laboratory of Ultrasound and Optoacoustic Diagnostics at the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, led by Pavel V. Subochev.
June 23, 2026

Maria Sergeeva is the winner of the R.V. Khokhlov student thesis competition!

LIMU student Maria Sergeeva won first place in the R.V. Khokhlov student thesis competition at the MSU Faculty of Physics. The award is especially meaningful this year, marking the 100th birthday of the outstanding physicist and MSU rector R.V. Khokhlov. Congratulations to Maria on this well-deserved award!
June 20, 2026

Vera A. Khokhlova has been awarded the William and Francis Fry Honorary Fellowship

LIMU co-head, Vera A. Khokhlova, has been honored with the prestigious William and Francis Fry Honorary Fellowship (The Fry Award), the highest lifetime achievement award presented annually by the International Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU) to an individual for outstanding contributions to the development of HIFU.
May 23, 2026

LIMU student Nikita Gusev is one of the winners of the second‑year course work competition

At the end of May 2026, the Physics Faculty held an awards ceremony for the winners of the second-year student work competition. Among them was LIMU student Nikita Gusev with his coursework, supervised by Ekaterina Ponomarchuk, titled: "Pulsed ultrasound approach for recanalization and fractionation of gastric and esophageal cancer tumors: the first experimental ex vivo demonstration and investigation of the influence of tumor morphology".
May 15, 2026

Oleg A. Sapozhnikov has been awarded the Helmholtz–Rayleigh Medal

LIMU co-founder and co-head, Oleg A. Sapozhnikov, has been awarded the prestigious Silver Interdisciplinary Helmholtz–Rayleigh Medal of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), with the citation: “For contributions to nonlinear acoustics and its application to medical ultrasound.”
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