MR techniques for guiding high‐intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) treatments

K Kuroda - Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
To make full use of the ability of magnetic resonance (MR) to guide high‐intensity focused
ultrasound (HIFU) treatment, effort has been made to improve techniques for thermometry …

Transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation of cortical and thalamic somatosensory areas in human

HC Kim, W Lee, DS Weisholtz, SS Yoo - PLoS One, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The effects of transcranial focused ultrasound (FUS) stimulation of the primary
somatosensory cortex and its thalamic projection (ie, ventral posterolateral nucleus) on the …

MRI monitoring of temperature and displacement for transcranial focus ultrasound applications

V Ozenne, C Constans, P Bour, MD Santin… - Neuroimage, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Transcranial focus ultrasound applications applied under MRI-guidance benefit
from unrivaled monitoring capabilities, allowing the recording of real-time anatomical …

Combining hyperintense FLAIR rim and radiological features in identifying IDH mutant 1p/19q non-codeleted lower-grade glioma

M Li, X Ren, X Chen, J Wang, S Shen, H Jiang… - European …, 2022 - Springer
Objectives Even very small residual tumors of IDH mutant 1p/19q non-codeleted (IDHmut-
Noncodel) astrocytoma could have a significantly negative impact on survival; thus, accurate …

B-mode ultrasound to elastography synthesis using multiscale learning

F Dai, Y Li, Y Zhu, B Li, Q Shi, Y Chen, D Ta - Ultrasonics, 2024 - Elsevier
Elastography is a promising diagnostic tool that measures the hardness of tissues, and it has
been used in clinics for detecting lesion progress, such as benign and malignant tumors …

Toward volumetric MR thermometry with the MASTER sequence

M Marx, J Plata, KB Pauly - IEEE transactions on medical …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
MR temperature monitoring is an indispensable tool for high intensity focused ultrasound. In
this paper, a new technique known as MASTER (multiple adjacent slice thermometry with …

Perfluorocarbon emulsion enhances MR-ARFI displacement and temperature in vitro: Evaluating the response with MRI, NMR, and hydrophone

R Holman, O Lorton, PC Guillemin… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Sonosensitive perfluorocarbon F8TAC18-PFOB emulsion is under development to enhance
heating, increase thermal contrast, and reduce treatment times during focused ultrasound …

Low-pressure burst-mode focused ultrasound wave reconstruction and mapping for blood-brain barrier opening: A preclinical examination

J Xia, PH Tsui, HL Liu - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Burst-mode focused ultrasound (FUS) exposure has been shown to induce transient blood-
brain barrier (BBB) opening for potential CNS drug delivery. FUS-BBB opening requires …

MRI Guidance of Transcranial Histotripsy Treatments

D Gupta - 2024 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu
Brain cancers account for over 250000 deaths per year worldwide, with over 300000 new
cases reported every year. There are three main treatment options for patients with brain …

No extraction of spine neck resistance from underdetermined equations

B Barbour - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
From voltage-dye measurements of dendritic spine responses to uncaging of glutamate,
Cartailler et al.(2018) reported extracting a value of spine neck resistance by optimization of …