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

Focused ultrasound in non-invasive surgery (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

The use of 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

Kseniya Topchu received an award for the best project among the 2nd year students of the Physics Faculty of MSU

In June 2019, Kseniya Topchu received the Third Degree Award presenting her project “Changes of morphological characteristics of blood cells during preparation of hematoma models for acoustic experiment" at the contest for the 2-nd year students of the Physics Faculty of Moscow State University. The project was conducted under supervision of Vera Khokhlova and Sergey Buravkov. Сongratulations!

Our project RNF was recognized as one of the best in 2018!

According to the results of 2018, the LIMU project of 2014 – 2018 “Physical principles and development of high intensity focused ultrasound medical transducers for shock wave treatments in inhomogeneous biological tissues” was recognized as one of the best projects supported by the Russian Science Foundation. ​Congratulations to the team on the successful implementation of the project!

Our colleagues from Seattle, George Sсhade and Tatiana Khokhlova, visited LIMU

At the end of March 2019, our colleagues from the University of Washington in Seattle visited LIMU. George Schade, Professor of the Department of Urology and Tatiana Khokhlova, Professor of the University Medical School, gave lectures on the present and future of non-invasive surgery using high-intensity focused ultrasound.

Autumn of 2018: LIMU participation in international conferences

In the fall of 2018, three major international conferences on acoustics and therapeutic ultrasound were organized: International Ultrasound Symposium (IUS, Kobe, Japan), 6th International Focused Ultrasound Symposium (FUSF, Reston, USA), and the 176th Meeting of the Acoustic Society of America, combined with the Week of Acoustics in Canada (ASA, Victoria, Canada). Seventeen talks co-authored with LIMU staff were presented.