For 50 years, high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) has been a subject of interest for
medical research. HIFU causes selective tissue necrosis in a very well defined volume, at a …

High intensity beams of ultrasound may be focused at depth within the body, thereby
producing selective damage within the focal volume, with no harm to overlying or …

Transrectal high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) was recently established as a highly
effective means of inducing contact and irradiation-free intraprostatic coagulative necrosis …

The prospect of being able to use “minimally invasive” surgical techniques is of great interest
today, particularly for reasons of health economics, patient acceptability and reduced …

An optically transparent phantom was developed for use in high-intensity focused
ultrasound (US), or HIFU, dosimetry studies. The phantom is composed of polyacrylamide …

Focused ultrasound offers a non-invasive way of depositing acoustic energy deep into the
body, which can be harnessed for a broad spectrum of therapeutic purposes, including …

This paper reviews ultrasound imaging methods for the guidance of therapeutic focused
ultrasound (USgFUS), with emphasis on real-time preclinical methods. Guidance is …

High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is a technique that was first investigated in the
1940s as a potential method of destroying selective regions within the brain to aid …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Focused ultrasound can produce thermal and/or
mechanical effects deep within tissue. We investigated the capability of intense focused …

The effect of temperature and thermal dose (equivalent minutes at 43° C) on ultrasonic
attenuation in fresh dog muscle, liver, and kidney in vitro, was studied over a temperature …