Scientists from the ibs.GRANADA design a new ultrasonic technique that would allow diagnosing diseases such as cancer
La European Society for Biomechanics has awarded a group of the ibs.GRANADA that focuses on the study of soft tissue from the biomechanical point of view, through ultrasonic torsion waves. Thanks to this non-invasive technique, diseases such as cancer could be diagnosed. It would also be applicable to the field of Gynecology or prediction of childbirth.
The award is one of four awarded by the European Biomechanical Society within the Spanish chapter of its 23rd European Congress, recently held in Seville. The award-winning work of the UGR is called Nonlinear shear torsion ultrasound for soft tissue characterization (Nonlinear torsion ultrasound to characterize soft tissue). It is a consequence of the results of the doctoral thesis defended almost two years ago by the researcher Juan Manuel Melchor Rodriguez, of the Department of Mechanics of Structures and Hydraulic Engineering of the UGR. All members of the project belong to the Ultrasound Research Group of the University of Granada, which is responsible for William Rus Carlborg.
The work tries to study soft tissue from the biomechanical point of view through ultrasonic torsion waves, generating harmonics in its structure. During the last few years, scientists have designed a new ultrasonic sensor for predicting parturition using this methodology.
La harmonics generation (from the study of non-linearity) is a novel technique that the UGR group develops for this ultrasonic sensor, whose potential lies in the ability to determine new parameters at a lower scale of the tissue, at a microscale, thus opening new pathways to understand soft tissues, not only in the field of Gynecology or prediction of childbirth, but also when making diagnoses of various pathologies such as cancer, given the non-invasive nature of ultrasound.