Kidney stones can cause sudden and intense pain, often sending people straight to the emergency room. Once symptoms begin, the next important step is confirming the diagnosis through imaging tests.

A research team at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) has investigated kidney diseases using ultrafast ultrasound that captures 1,000 images in just one second. The research team ...

Super-resolution ultrasound microvascular imaging, known as ultrasound localization microscopy, was a safe, reliable, and reproducible noninvasive imaging method that quantified intrarenal ...

Sometimes all it takes is a little push. That is the conclusion of a recently published study in which doctors used a handheld ultrasound device to nudge patients' kidney-stone fragments. As many as ...

Ultrasound of the abdominal organs is a central diagnostic tool and is recommended as the first-line approach for many medical conditions. Compared with other imaging modalities such as computed ...

Sepsis-associated acute kidney injury (SA-AKI) remains a major clinical challenge due to the lack of effective targeted therapies. In this study, we designed ultrasound-responsive, renal-targeted ...