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Surface Ultrasound Diagnoses Disease


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Parisian investigators affiliated with the Sorbonne report their pilot study using a sensitive vibrometer, the airborne ultrasound surface motion camera, AUSMC for short, to quantitate lung vibrations associated with speaking and breathing.  This non-invasive technique is in its infancy, but the concept of using both speech-generated vibrations and also those produced by vibration generators on the chest to help diagnose disease in the lungs and the voicebox may be of use…..someday soon.


https://pubs.aip.org/aip/adv/article/14/3/035033/3276143/Airborne-ultrasound-for-the-contactless-mapping-of


#vibrations #ultrasound #ausmc #lung #larynx


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Dr. Howard Smith ReportsBy Howard G. Smith MD, AM