Mark V. Kingsley07/13/2021 In previous articles, I’ve written about ultrasound used to stimulate the brain to wake up coma patients, as a promising treatment for chronic pain, and even as a tool for neuroscientists to accurately predict human behavior. Every month, without fail, there has been a new story about how functional ultrasound and its … Continue reading
Tell us a little about yourself and what is your role at Acertara? I am a Customer Service Representative here at Acertara. I returned to the workforce about 5 years ago after having raised and homeschooled my children. My extended family has a lot of engineers and computer scientists, including my dad, my husband, and … Continue reading
G. Wayne Moore06/07/2021 Ultrasound probes are susceptible to both counterfeiting as well as unregulated remanufacturing1. Our friend, Merriam-Webster, defines counterfeit as “something made in imitation of something else with the intent to deceive.” How else would you describe removing and replacing critical performance OEM components with non-OEM components that have not undergone verification and validation … Continue reading
G. Wayne Moore05/09/2021 Diagnostic ultrasound systems have been through multiple technologically important inflection points over the last 40 years – including the first one I was directly involved in – the transition from analog to digital scan conversion. However, hand-held battery-operated ultrasound devices are not new. Indeed, a company called Organon Teknika introduced the pictured … Continue reading
Mark V. Kingsley04/09/2021 Short answer: Yes, it can. Long Answer: In the 1980s, neuroscientist Benjamin Libet conducted a controversial study that found a half-second delay when measuring the time between when subjects felt they had made a conscious decision to flick their wrists and the corresponding neural activity in the brain. The neural activity in … Continue reading
Mark V. Kingsley03/09/2021 With the mention of ultrasound, the first thing that may come to mind for many people is black and white photographs of fetuses in the womb. Those images have improved significantly with improvements in technology, and with those improvements, the use of ultrasound is increasingly being recognized as potentially revolutionary in treatment … Continue reading
Mark V. Kingsley02/09/2021 The concept of applying ultrasound to neuronal activity for research and treatment has been around since as early as 1958. However, this promising speculation is now becoming a reality. Following the Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) approval by the FDA of the use of deep brain stimulation (DBS), vagus nerve stimulation, and repetitive … Continue reading
G. Wayne Moore02/09/2021 There are four paths forward currently being pursued regarding the so-called “Right-to-Repair” issue specific to medical devices; regulation, litigation, legislation, and collaboration. The FDA- initiated 3rd Party Service Docket central to this issue began almost 5 years ago. So, what has happened since March of 2016? The FDA committed to draft a … Continue reading
Mark V. Kingsley02/09/2021 When I first came through Acertara’s doors, all I knew was that the company had something to do with ultrasound technology repair. While I enjoyed the few physics classes I took in high school and college, I was not overly familiar with the science of ultrasound. My only real association with it … Continue reading
G. Wayne Moore12/08/2020 I am very excited about Christmas this year; in fact, I am very excited about Christmas every year. To me Christmas 2020 signals both the end of a very long and trying year and the starting gate to the beginning of a new, and yet untarnished year ahead. COVID, contentious elections, and … Continue reading
