Distorted Ultrasound Waves Produce Clearer Images: University Technology Licensed to Medical Ultrasound Company

A technology that greatly sharpens ultrasound images by capitalizing on a distortion that arises in tissue has been licensed to Acuson Corporation in Mountain View, Calif. The technique was developed at the University of Rochester's Center for Biomedical Ultrasound by several researchers over the course of three decades. Acuson, which has been granted a nonexclusive right to the patent, is a leading worldwide manufacturer and service provider of diagnostic medical ultrasound systems that generate, display, archive, and retrieve ultrasound images.