Doctors devise method of testing blood pressure using ultrasound
Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 07:50
in Health & Medicine
(PhysOrg.com) -- In what can only be described as insightful, two doctors from The Netherlands, working with Italian imaging companies, have devised a means to use ultrasound to measure blood pressure. The technology, more known for peering into the womb to check on babies still growing in utero, should allow physicians to check the blood pressure of patients at literally any point in the body without subjecting them to uncomfortable or invasive procedures. The doctors, Nathalie Binjnens and Frans van de Voss from Eindhoven University of Technology, have published their results in the scientific journal Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology.