If you don’t get enough iodine from your diet, your thyroid gland can become progressively larger. In addition, thyroiditis, or the inflammation of your thyroid gland can cause thyroid nodules.

So there are multiple avenues to harness ultrasound for Alzheimer’s that are worth investigating further. I’ve heard that a similar approach can also be used for more targeted cancer treatments?

Adopting the new tool, named micro-ultrasound – or microUS – would ... procedures with MRI ones specifically for prostate cancer. As part of the trial, 677 men underwent biopsy at 19 hospitals ...

Biopsies guided by high resolution ultrasound are as effective as those using MRI in diagnosing prostate cancer, an international clinical trial has shown. The technology, called micro-ultrasound ...

Prostate cancer could be diagnosed faster by using a new “game changing” ultrasound scan instead of a traditional MRI, research has shown. Currently patients must undergo both an MRI scan and ...

Biopsies guided by high resolution ultrasound are as effective as those using MRI in diagnosing prostate cancer, an international clinical trial has shown. The technology, called micro-ultrasound ...