COLUMBIA — One University of Missouri scientist found a method to monitor and detect how thick or how viscous blood is using ultrasound technology.

"What's not to like?" senior Research scientist Nilesh Salvi said. "I mean, we're bringing something in real time which has been completely absent before now."

The ultrasound technology and method allow for constant observation of blood thickness, as opposed to a past process, which would only be able to analyze how thick one droplet of blood was for one person at one time.

"The data that you get (from the previous method) is very bad quality," Salvi said. "All this ordeal for one data point. Your viscosity at this time on this day, it doesn't mean much."

In 2017, Salvi first discovered how soundwaves can detect thickness and density in phy

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