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