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Transcranial focused ultrasound

Transcranial ultrasound is the only non-surgical modality that can reach deep brain targets at millimetre scale, and the same hardware can stimulate and read.

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Fig. 1What would prove it. Each ring is a dated test: dashed while open, struck through when overdue, ticked or crossed once resolved.
  1. 1Butterfly Network names at least two further BCI partners for its ultrasound-on-chip by 30 Jun 2027.Jun 2027
  2. 2A peer-reviewed study decodes task-evoked brain activity with functional ultrasound through the intact adult human skull, by 31 Dec 2027.Dec 2027
  3. 3The FDA grants clearance, De Novo or PMA to a transcranial focused-ultrasound device for NON-ablative neuromodulation by 31 Dec 2028.Dec 2028
Expressionslisted, private, technologies
Private · 9 private companies, 6 of them in the US.

Merge Labs · Forest Neurotech · Iconeus · Insightec · Butterfly Network · Nudge · Openwater · Sonomind · Bridge Neurotech

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