An update on focal therapy for prostate cancer

M Perera, N Krishnananthan, U Lindner… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
Globally, the increased uptake of serum PSA level screening led to an increase in the
number of diagnoses of low-risk and intermediate-risk prostate cancer. Traditionally, these …

Recent advances in the use of focused ultrasound as a treatment for epilepsy

E Lescrauwaet, K Vonck, M Sprengers… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Epilepsy affects about 1% of the population. Approximately one third of patients with
epilepsy are drug-resistant (DRE). Resective surgery is an effective treatment for DRE, yet …

STrategically Acquired Gradient Echo (STAGE) imaging, part I: Creating enhanced T1 contrast and standardized susceptibility weighted imaging and quantitative …

Y Chen, S Liu, Y Wang, Y Kang, EM Haacke - Magnetic resonance imaging, 2018 - Elsevier
Purpose To provide whole brain grey matter (GM) to white matter (WM) contrast enhanced
T1W (T1WE) images, multi-echo quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM), proton density …

Thermal combination therapies for local drug delivery by magnetic resonance-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound

N Hijnen, E Kneepkens, M de Smet… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Several thermal-therapy strategies such as thermal ablation, hyperthermia-triggered drug
delivery from temperature-sensitive liposomes (TSLs), and combinations of the above were …

The applications of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) ablative therapy in the treatment of primary breast cancer: a systematic review

D Zulkifli, HA Manan, N Yahya, HA Hamid - Diagnostics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Background: This study evaluates the role of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU)
ablative therapy in treating primary breast cancer. Methods: PubMed and Scopus databases …

Ultrasound-Based Micro-/Nanosystems for Biomedical Applications

H Huang, Y Zheng, M Chang, J Song, L Xia… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Due to the intrinsic non-invasive nature, cost-effectiveness, high safety, and real-time
capabilities, besides diagnostic imaging, ultrasound as a typical mechanical wave has been …

MR thermometry during transcranial MR imaging–guided focused ultrasound procedures: a review

RR Mattay, K Kim, L Shah, B Shah… - American Journal …, 2024 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
Interest in transcranial MR imaging–guided focused ultrasound procedures has recently
grown. These incisionless procedures enable precise focal ablation of brain tissue using …

The Focused Ultrasound Myoma Outcome Study (FUMOS); a retrospective cohort study on long-term outcomes of MR-HIFU therapy

IM Verpalen, JP de Boer, M Linstra, RLI Pol… - European …, 2020 - Springer
Objectives Since 2004, uterine fibroids have been treated with MR-HIFU, but there are
persevering doubts on long-term efficacy to date. In the Focused Ultrasound Myoma …

[HTML][HTML] A review of high-intensity focused ultrasound as a novel and non-invasive interventional radiology technique

R Yao, J Hu, W Zhao, Y Cheng, C Feng - Journal of interventional medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is a non-invasive interventional radiology
technology, which has been generally accepted in clinical practice for the treatment of …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial heterogeneity of nanomedicine investigated by multiscale imaging of the drug, the nanoparticle and the tumour environment

JS De Maar, AM Sofias, TP Siegel, RJ Vreeken… - Theranostics, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Genetic and phenotypic tumour heterogeneity is an important cause of therapy resistance.
Moreover, non-uniform spatial drug distribution in cancer treatment may cause pseudo …