An echocardiogram, or echo, is a test that helps doctors check on your heart health. The test, which is a kind of ultrasound, uses harmless sound waves to create a real-time moving picture of your ...

After 25 years of essential tremor, Joyce Clifton regained steady hands thanks to focused ultrasound at University of Utah Health. The incisionless treatment restored her ability to write, bake, and ...

An electrocardiogram and echocardiogram (echo) are both noninvasive imaging tests that look at the functioning of your heart and can help identify heart disease. An electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG) and ...

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) -guided focused ultrasound is a less invasive option designed to target a specific area of the brain responsible for tremors without traditional surgery. The focused ...

Philips’ 3D intracardiac echocardiography catheter is ready for its close-up—its extreme, in vivo close-up, that is. A little less than a year after securing 510(k) clearance from the FDA, the ...

Imaging tests, including ultrasound, are often a part of stomach cancer diagnosis. Stomach cancer is a serious condition that affects thousands of people in the United States each year. According to ...

Static ultrasound guidance is used to select and mark the site of needle insertion immediately before the procedure takes place. Dynamic ultrasound guidance, in contrast, is used to directly visualize ...

Unilateral focused ultrasound ablation of the internal segment of globus pallidus has reduced motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease in open-label studies. We randomly assigned, in a 3:1 ratio, ...