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

LIMU has a new Ph.D. – Ekaterina Ponomarchuk passed her dissertation defense!

On October 19, 2023, a LIMU 4th year graduate student Ekaterina Ponomarchuk successfully passed the defense of her PhD dissertation: “Mechanical fractionation of soft tissues in pulsed focused shock wave fields”. The work was carried out under the supervision of D.Sc. Vera A. Khokhlova and D.Sc. Sergey V. Buravkov. Congratulations to Ekaterina and her supervisors!

LIMU at the All-Russian Science Festival NAUKA 0+

From October 6 to 8, 2023, the All-Russian Science festival NAUKA 0+ was held in Moscow. The LIMU laboratory took part in the exhibition held at the Fundamental Library of Moscow State University. The LIMU students and graduate students told visitors about the use of ultrasound in medicine and experimentally demonstrated its capabilities. The LIMU demonstrations sparked great interest among visitors and left a good impression!

LIMU’s participation in the XXXIV Russian school-seminar “Waves-2023”

From 28th of May to 2nd June 2023, for the first time in the last few years, the XXXIV Russian school-seminar "Waves-2023" was held in in-person format. LIMU presented 9 talks in several sections, and four of our PhD and MS students were awarded certificates for the best presentation in their sections.

Congratulations to Vera Khokhlova with an honorary award!

V.A. Khokhlova received the honorary award of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) - the Rayleigh-Helmholtz Interdisciplinary Silver Medal in Biomedical Acoustics and Physical Acoustics. The ASA announcement for this award recognizes Vera Khokhlova’s contributions to the application of nonlinear acoustics to medical ultrasound and her important role in the evolution of this field.