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 LIMU students on winning the competition «Science XXI»

The team of students of the laboratory became the winner of the competition of scientific and technical initiatives of the Lomonosov Moscow State University «Science XXI». The project is dedicated to the development of amplitude-phase masks for single-element acoustic transducers. The team included PhD students Nikolayev Dmitry and Asfandiyarov Shamil, as well as bachelor students Kaloev Azamat and Krendeleva Anna.

LIMU participation in international conferences ISTU-2021 and ASA meeting

In June 2021, LIMU team took an active part in international symposiums and conferences. The Acoustical Society of America (ASA) meeting was held virtually from June 8 to 10, 2021. Our laboratory at the meeting was represented by Petr Yuldashev with an invited talk. From June 6 to 9, 2021, the 20th Annual International Symposium for Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU-2021) was held in a hybrid format, in-person part taking place in Gyeongju, Korea. Overall, 11 talks were presented at the conference in collaboration with LIMU scientists.

Congratulations to LIMU students and postgraduates on receiving grants, awards and scholarships!

Despite the remote work and studying, the collection of LIMU students’ and postgraduates’ achievements was actively replenished with new awards, grants and scholarships! E. Konnova, L. Kotelnikova, P. Pestova, Sh. Asfandiyarov and E. Ponomarchuk won scholarships from the “BASIS” Foundation for future MSc and PhD students of Physics Faculty. K. Tumanova, A. Kunturova, A. Tsekhanovich, A. Kaloev, E. Konnova and A. Podyman received the State Enhanced Academic Stipend. D. Chupova and E. Konnova were awarded grants from FUSF and presented their results at the 7th International Symposium on Focused Ultrasound. L. Kotelnikova and P. Pestova received personal stipends named after famous scientists, A.N. Tikhonov and M.V. Lomonosov. And also E. Ponomarchuk has replenished LIMU award collection with personal V. Potanin scholarship. Congratulations!

LIMU participation in the Science Festival

On October 10, 2020, within the framework of the All-Russian Festival of Science, LIMU PhD student Alisa Krokhmal gave an online lecture on the topic "Ultrasound as a tool for biofabrication", and also starred with Associate Professor S.A. Tsysar in a story about modern science for the news channel Russia-1.