ULTRASOUND DEVICES COMBINING 3-D IMAGING WITH THERAPEUTIC HEATING BEING DEVELOPED BY DUKE ENGINEERS

Duke University engineers are developing technology that may enable physicians to someday use high frequency ultrasound waves both to visualize the heart's interior in three dimensions and then selectively destroy heart tissue with heat to correct arrhythmias. "No one else has developed a way for ultrasound to combine therapy and imaging in a catheter, let alone 3-D imaging," said Stephen Smith, the biomedical engineering professor who heads the project at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering.
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