Applications of focused ultrasound in the brain: from thermoablation to drug delivery

Y Meng, K Hynynen, N Lipsman - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2021 - nature.com
Focused ultrasound (FUS) is a disruptive medical technology, and its implementation in the
clinic represents the culmination of decades of research. Lying at the convergence of …

Non-invasive transcranial ultrasound stimulation for neuromodulation

G Darmani, TO Bergmann, KB Pauly, CF Caskey… - Clinical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) holds great potential as a tool to alter neural
circuits non-invasively in both animals and humans. In contrast to established non-invasive …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrasound neuromodulation: a review of results, mechanisms and safety

J Blackmore, S Shrivastava, J Sallet, CR Butler… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2019 - Elsevier
Ultrasonic neuromodulation is a rapidly growing field, in which low-intensity ultrasound (US)
is delivered to nervous system tissue, resulting in transient modulation of neural activity. This …

Ultrasound technologies for imaging and modulating neural activity

C Rabut, S Yoo, RC Hurt, Z Jin, H Li, H Guo, B Ling… - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
Visualizing and perturbing neural activity on a brain-wide scale in model animals and
humans is a major goal of neuroscience technology development. Established electrical and …

Focused ultrasound excites cortical neurons via mechanosensitive calcium accumulation and ion channel amplification

S Yoo, DR Mittelstein, RC Hurt, J Lacroix… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Ultrasonic neuromodulation has the unique potential to provide non-invasive control of
neural activity in deep brain regions with high spatial precision and without chemical or …

Intrinsic functional neuron-type selectivity of transcranial focused ultrasound neuromodulation

K Yu, X Niu, E Krook-Magnuson, B He - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) is a promising neuromodulation technique, but its
mechanisms remain unclear. We hypothesize that if tFUS parameters exhibit distinct …

Ectopic expression of a mechanosensitive channel confers spatiotemporal resolution to ultrasound stimulations of neurons for visual restoration

S Cadoni, C Demené, I Alcala, M Provansal… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Remote and precisely controlled activation of the brain is a fundamental challenge in the
development of brain–machine interfaces for neurological treatments. Low-frequency …

Manipulation of subcortical and deep cortical activity in the primate brain using transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation

D Folloni, L Verhagen, RB Mars, E Fouragnan… - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
The causal role of an area within a neural network can be determined by interfering with its
activity and measuring the impact. Many current reversible manipulation techniques have …

Activation of mechanoluminescent nanotransducers by focused ultrasound enables light delivery to deep-seated tissue in vivo

S Jiang, X Wu, F Yang, NJ Rommelfanger, G Hong - Nature Protocols, 2023 - nature.com
Light is used extensively in biological and medical research for optogenetic
neuromodulation, fluorescence imaging, photoactivatable gene editing and light-based …

The mechanosensitive ion channel Piezo1 contributes to ultrasound neuromodulation

J Zhu, Q Xian, X Hou, KF Wong, T Zhu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Transcranial low-intensity ultrasound is a promising neuromodulation modality, with the
advantages of noninvasiveness, deep penetration, and high spatiotemporal accuracy …