Therapeutic Ultrasound
Applications Laboratory
Applications Laboratory
Welcome
The research in the Therapeutic Ultrasound Lab at Penn State develops noninvasive methods for both treating cancer and recording temperature information from patients using ultrasound thermal therapy, noninvasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) thermometry and adaptive feedback control. Therapeutic applications include the design and construction of focused ultrasound arrays to noninvasively ablate benign or cancerous tumors. MRI is a promising modality for noninvasive guidance, monitoring, and control of thermal therapies since it provides good spatial localization, temperature sensitivity and a level of tissue contrast that allows for accurate target identification in ultrasound therapy. The MRI research is now performed at the Huck Institute Magnetic Resonance Centre on the University Park campus.
To alleviate the daily pain of insulin injections for diabetics, the lab is exploring the effect of ultrasound to enhance transdermal drug delivery of insulin and glucose sensing across skin without the use of invasive needles.