There are three main areas of study in the area of biomedical acoustics at the University of Rochester:
Mechanisms of interaction of ultrasound energy with biological tissues, including therapeutic applications of ultrasound
Ultrasound imaging, including the development of novel strategies for using ultrasound to characterize the mechanical properties of healthy and diseased tissue
Studies of hearing, including:
Cellular and molecular studies of the process of sensory reception in the inner ear
The development of drug delivery devices for the inner ear
Studies of the physiological responses of auditory neurons at several levels of the central nervous system in young and aged animals
Behavioral studies of hearing related to sound localization and the processing of complex sounds
The ultrasound research projects benefit from the University of Rochester's Center for Biomedical Ultrasound. Hearing researchers participate actively in the Center for Navigation and Communication Sciences.
Professor Laurel Carney and Professor Diane Dalecki were featured on WXXI's Science Roundtable. Listen to the interview here.
Photoacoustic imaging for medical diagnosis, application of high resolution ultrasound for bladder tumor detection and follow-up; high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) for hemostasis
There are three main areas of study in the area of biomedical acoustics at the University of Rochester:
