Welcome to the website of the Laboratory for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound!

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

Maria Karzova got a Ph.D. from Moscow State University and Ecole Centrale de Lyon

A Ph.D. student of LIMU Maria Karzova brilliantly defended her thesis "Nonlinear focusing and reflection of shock acoustic waves: applications in medical ultrasound and aeroacoustics" on 10th of March 2016 in Moscow. In 2012 she got a Ph.D. scholarship "cotutelle" from the French government and then performed her thesis in collaboration between Moscow State University and Ecole Centrale de Lyon. Finally, Maria got her Ph.D. from both universities. Congratulations to Dr. Karzova!

V.A. Khokhlova and O.A. Sapozhnikov visited Nanjing University and gave lectures at the Institute of Acoustics

V.A. Khokhlova and O.A. Sapozhnikov gave lectures at the Institute of Acoustics, School of Physics of Nanjing University in China. Prof. Khokhlova presented a talk "Methods of characterizing medical ultrasound fields using nonlinear simulations with a boundary condition obtained from measurements" and Prof. Sapozhnikov talked on "Acoustic fountains, ultrasonic atomization, and their possible role in the biological tissue damage by HIFU". Slogan for the students at the entrance to the university: be honest, be strong, study well, and work hard.