Ultrasound can penetrate deep into tissues and interact with human tissue via thermal and
mechanical mechanisms. The ability to focus an ultrasound beam and its energy onto …

Colorectal cancer commonly metastasizes. The liver is the most frequent site of metastases
and dominates the length of survival for this disease. As surgical and systemic therapies …

Interventional Radiology (IR) has experienced an exponential growth in recent years.
Technological advances of the last decades have made it possible to use new treatments on …

High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is a noninvasive procedure that has shown
promising results in a wide range of malignant and nonmalignant conditions, including …

Background While there is no breakthrough progress in the medical treatment of essential
tremor (ET), in the past decades several remarkable achievements happened in the surgical …

Therapeutic ultrasound is only beginning to be applied to neurologic conditions, but the
potential of this modality for a wide spectrum of brain applications is high. Engineering …

Objective To review the efficacy of percutaneous thermal ablation (TA) of bone metastases
(radiofrequency ablation [RFA], microwave ablation [MWA], cryoablation [CA], and MR …

High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is a totally noninvasive procedure that has shown
promising results in the management of numerous malignant and nonmalignant conditions …

The clinical role of magnetic resonance image-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound
(MR-HIFU) is rapidly expanding due to its merit of non-invasiveness. MR thermometry based …

Background Primary or metastatic osseous and soft tissue lesions can be treated by ablation
techniques. Methods These techniques are classified into chemical ablation (including …