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

Congratulations to our students on successful defense of their Master’s theses!

On June 3, 2024, students of the Department of Acoustics of the MSU Physics Faculty successfully passed the defense of their Master's theses, including LIMU students Fedor Nartov and Oleg Solontsov. Fedor's thesis was unanimously selected by the committee for participation in the R.V. Khokhlov student work competition.

LIMU at the XXXV Russian school-seminar “Waves-2024”

From May 26 to 31, 2024, the XXXV All-Russian school-seminar "Wave phenomena: physics and applications" named after Professor A.P. Sukhorukov ("Waves 2024") was held. Students, postgraduates and research fellows of the LIMU laboratory presented 12 talks in three sections.

The first use of a compensation method for phase deviations of a unique multi-element focused array

LIMU staff and PhD students S.A. Tsysar, P.B. Rosnitsky, S.A. Asfandiyarov, S.A. Petrosyan, V.A. Khokhlova and O.A. Sapozhnikov presented in the Acoustical Physics publication the first use of the acoustic holography method for phase correction of a unique multi-element HIFU array with a mosaic arrangement of elements acquired with the support of the Moscow State University development program.

LIMU lab tour for “Letovo” school students

On April 4, 2024, school students of grades 8–11 from the private school “Letovo” came in for a LIMU lab tour. LIMU undergraduates, PhD students and staff prepared experimental demonstrations and educated prospective university students on the capabilities of ultrasound and its evolving applications in industry and medicine.