Functional Ultrasound Imaging (fUSI) from scratch

(neuroai.science)

25 points | by pminimax 6 hours ago

3 comments

  • tokyovigilante 42 minutes ago

    How do you propose to solve the “rigid skull” problem (footnote 2 in the post)? Most people like having theirs intact during diagnostic imaging.

    I await clinical use of this with bated breath…

    • kanzure 4 hours ago

      That's cool. Ultrasound imaging should be much more broadly available, like household object next to your toothbrush. I wonder how OpenWater open-source focused ultrasound stimulation is doing.

      • polishdude20 3 hours ago

        I've recently built my own ultrasound machine at home with only the probe being an ebay buy from a previously working machine.

        I've gotta get on writing an article about it one day!

        • tokyovigilante 40 minutes ago

          Well done, although all commercial ultrasounds are just a probe (piezoelectric curved or linear array) connected to a computer, previously over a high speed custom parallel bus, today USB-C will do. Then M-mode or B-mode reconstruction just runs in software. Doppler needs beam-steering etc and is a bit more complex.

          • jacquesm 2 hours ago

            Please do! That makes me wonder how hard it would be to make a probe.

        • bbor 3 hours ago

          Very interesting, great write up, and awesome blog in general!

          I never got to invest serious time in this idea, but MMW: trimodal EEG+fNIRS+fUSI dry headsets are going to change everything. Each technique has its strengths, and there are already people hacking together trimodal prototypes as we speak.