[HTML][HTML] High intensity focused ultrasound in clinical tumor ablation

YF Zhou - World journal of clinical oncology, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Recent advances in high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), which was developed in the
1940s as a viable thermal tissue ablation approach, have increased its popularity. In clinics …

Towards controlled drug delivery in brain tumors with microbubble-enhanced focused ultrasound

S Schoen Jr, MS Kilinc, H Lee, Y Guo… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Brain tumors are particularly challenging malignancies, due to their location in a structurally
and functionally distinct part of the human body–the central nervous system (CNS). The CNS …

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 …

Neuromodulation with single‐element transcranial focused ultrasound in human thalamus

W Legon, L Ai, P Bansal, JK Mueller - Human brain mapping, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) has proven capable of stimulating cortical tissue in
humans. tFUS confers high spatial resolutions with deep focal lengths and as such, has the …

Transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) and transcranial unfocused ultrasound (tUS) neuromodulation: from theoretical principles to stimulation practices

L Di Biase, E Falato, V Di Lazzaro - Frontiers in neurology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Transcranial focused ultrasound is an emerging technique for non-invasive
neurostimulation. Compared to magnetic or electric non-invasive brain stimulation, this …

Focused ultrasound surgery in oncology: overview and principles

CMC Tempany, NJ McDannold, K Hynynen, FA Jolesz - Radiology, 2011 - pubs.rsna.org
Focused ultrasound surgery (FUS) is a noninvasive image-guided therapy and an
alternative to surgical interventions. It presents an opportunity to revolutionize cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Benchmark problems for transcranial ultrasound simulation: Intercomparison of compressional wave models

JF Aubry, O Bates, C Boehm, K Butts Pauly… - The Journal of the …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Computational models of acoustic wave propagation are frequently used in transcranial
ultrasound therapy, for example, to calculate the intracranial pressure field or to calculate …

Simulation techniques in hyperthermia treatment planning

MM Paulides, PR Stauffer, E Neufeld… - International Journal …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Clinical trials have shown that hyperthermia (HT), ie an increase of tissue temperature to 39–
44° C, significantly enhance radiotherapy and chemotherapy effectiveness [1]. Driven by the …

Influence of the pressure field distribution in transcranial ultrasonic neurostimulation

Y Younan, T Deffieux, B Larrat, M Fink… - Medical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Low‐intensity focused ultrasound has been shown to stimulate the brain
noninvasively and without noticeable tissue damage. Such a noninvasive and localized …

[HTML][HTML] Accurate simulation of transcranial ultrasound propagation for ultrasonic neuromodulation and stimulation

JLB Robertson, BT Cox, J Jaros… - The Journal of the …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Non-invasive, focal neurostimulation with ultrasound is a potentially powerful neuroscientific
tool that requires effective transcranial focusing of ultrasound to develop. Time-reversal (TR) …