University of Rochester Ultrasound Technology Licensed to GE

An ultrasound image-sharpening technology developed at the Rochester Center for Biomedical Ultrasound (RCBU) at the University of Rochester has been licensed to General Electric Company, the world's largest producer of ultrasound equipment.

Now that General Electric joins Royal Philips Electronics, Siemens, and others as a licensee of the technology, 80 percent of the U.S. ultrasound manufacturing will now use the RCBU innovation. The Tucson-based company Research Corporation Technologies (RCT) manages the technology for the University, and continues its efforts to license the technology broadly to the ultrasound industry.

The technology, called tissue harmonic imaging, exploits the different ways ultrasound frequencies travel through tissue, revealing once-hidden structures within. With the technology, doctors can utilize dramatically sharper ultrasound images, such as when screening for breast cancer or cardiac imaging, regardless of the kind of tissue being examined.

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