More medicine to the tumour using ultrasound and microbubbles
Focused ultrasound, gass-filled microbubbles and nanoparticles filled with chemo can cure cancer in mice and reduce the tumour size in patients. How is this possible? Read more in this blog post at Forskning.no (in Norwegian): Mer medisin til kreftsvulsten ved hjelp av ultralyd og mikrobobler
The importance of treating ischemic heart disease fast!
Treatment of ischemic heart disease has improved considerably the last decades. Not only the treatment itself, but also timing of treatment has been of great importance for this success. Nevertheless, ischemic heart disease is still the leading cause of death in the world.
How can we improve cardiac diagnostics at the GP’s office?
Cardiac diseases are a major health concern and many of the patients in a general practitioner’s (GPs) office have heart conditions. Hand-held ultrasound device (HUD) can improve the GP’s diagnostic possibilities. We want to evaluate if a training program with focus on practical ultrasound skills can help the GP’s to correctly diagnose certain heart conditions by using HUD. If successful, unnecessary referrals could be avoided and patients in need of specialist care would avoid delay in diagnosis and treatment.
Tissue Stiffness Estimation using Ultrasound
Physical examination at the doctor’s office often involves palpation where the physician tries to feel the location, size, shape and stiffness of masses or organs in the body by touching. Sometimes, even the patients themselves can notice lumps or abnormalities in their body and refer…
The road to disputation
“I guess that was my last remark.” from the last challenger. 4.5 years summarized, questioned and discussed over three hours, and I was finally finished.
Tormod Njølstad hired as Innovation Manager in Ultrasound at ISB
Tormod Njølstad (59) is hired as Innovation Manager in the Ultrasound group at ISB by September 2018.
With CIUS at IUS
Twenty-nine experts and researchers associated with CIUS participated at IUS, the IEEE International Ultrasound Symposium in Kobe, Japan, in October 2018. Not only the number of attendees, but also the number of presentations from CIUS was impressively high. The overall scientific contribution from the CIUS…
Mapping early signs of cardiac dysfunction in children using ultrasound
Children with dysfunction of the right heart chamber (ventricle), which pumps blood to the lungs, have lower tolerance to exercise and at risk of sudden cardiac death in more severe cases. This dysfunction usually sets in progressively and detection at earlier stages is crucial to guiding therapies and interventions that improve symptoms and survival. New ultrasound techniques, makes it easier detect and quantify the problem.
Assessing aortic stenosis severity by ultrasound
Aortic valve stenosis is a narrowing of the valve that separates the left ventricle from the aorta. A reduced opening increases the effort required by the left ventricle to pump blood. Being a degenerative disease, patients with aortic stenosis must undergo a clinical follow-up, which is usually performed by ultrasound. At the Centre of Innovative Ultrasound Solutions (CIUS), we are developing a new method that exploits 3-D high frame-rate imaging to increase the degree of automation in aortic stenosis flow measurements. The goal is to speed up the workflow in the clinics and increase the accuracy of measurements.
Improving cardiac ultrasound in difficult-to-image patients
Despite constant improvements within the field of medical ultrasound, there are still a considerable number of difficult-to-image patient. Echocardiograms (heart images) taken from these patients do not have the quality that is needed for correct diagnosis. Therefore it is important to further improve the quality of echocardiograms.