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

The LIMU team has published a paper on histotripsy liquefaction of ex vivo human prostate tissue in atop-rated journal Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (Q1)

A paper titled «Initial assessment of boiling histotripsy for mechanical ablation of ex vivo human prostate tissue» has been published in top-rated journal Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (Q1, IF 3.694). The study came as a result of joint efforts of a multidisciplinary team, which included LIMU fellows (Khokhlova V.A., Rosnitskiy P.B., Tsysar S.A., Ponomarchuk E.M., Sapozhnikov O.A., and Karzova M.M.), physicists, and medical doctors from different institutions. The co-authors were affiliated with the Faculty of fundamental medicine of MSU, Medical Research and Educational Center of MSU, the Research Institute of Human Morphology, and the University of Washington.

Congratulations to LIMU students on receiving grants and scholarships!

The bank of LIMU's achievements is growing. According to the results of the grants competition for MS and PhD programs, Fedor Nartov, Lyubov Kotelnikova and Daria Chupova became the winners. Oleg Solotsov and Fedor Nartov received FUSF grants for scientific research during the summer. Elena Konnova and Lyubov Kotelnikova were awarded an advanced academic scholarship.

Congratulations to our graduates on the award of a bachelor’s and a master’s degree!

On the 21st of June, a solemn ceremony of awarding diplomas to graduates of the Faculty of Physics took place at the Moscow State University (MSU). All our graduates of the master's program-2022 Elena Konnova, Lyubov Kotelnikova, Polina Pestova, and Daria Chupova were awarded diplomas with honors by the rector of MSU. Fedor Nartov and Oleg Solontsov successfully completed the undergraduate program and got bachelor's degree. Congratulations to LIMU graduates on their diplomas!

LIMU participation in international conference ISTU-2022

From 7th to 10th of June, the 21st International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound ISTU 2022 was held in a hybrid format, in-person part taking place in Toronto, Canada. Laboratory LIMU was represented by junior researcher Pavel Rosnitskiy, PhD student Alisa Krokhmal and Bachelor's degree graduates Kseniia Tumanova and Azamat Kaloev.

LIMU participated in Russian school-seminar “Waves-2022”

From 5th to 10th of June 2022, the LIMU team participated in the XXXIII All-Russian School-seminar "Wave Phenomena: Physics and Applications" named after Professor A.P. Sukhorukov (“Waves-2022”), held in a hybrid in-person/virtual format in the resort of MSU "Krasnovidovo". LIMU presented 7 reports in the sections "Acoustics of inhomogeneous media" and "Bio- and medical applications of wave physics". Two of our participants were awarded certificates for the best report!

LIMU at the Lomonosov week

LIMU members, PhD students and students took part at the two events which were held from April 18 to April 22 at Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov. Within the framework of the scientific conference of students, graduate students and young scientists "Lomonosov 2022", 6 students of LIMU presented their works, and graduate student E.M. Ponomarchuk and junior researcher P.B. Rosnitsky made presentations at the scientific conference "Lomonosov Readings - 2022".