MR‐guided focused ultrasound surgery, present and future

D Schlesinger, S Benedict, C Diederich… - Medical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
MR‐guided focused ultrasound surgery (MRgFUS) is a quickly developing technology with
potential applications across a spectrum of indications traditionally within the domain of …

Ultrasound for the brain: a review of physical and engineering principles, and clinical applications

W Qiu, A Bouakaz, EE Konofagou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emergence of new ultrasound technologies has improved our understanding of the
brain functions and offered new opportunities for the treatment of brain diseases. Ultrasound …

Experimental demonstration of noninvasive transskull adaptive focusing based on prior computed tomography scans

JF Aubry, M Tanter, M Pernot, JL Thomas… - The Journal of the …, 2003 - pubs.aip.org
Developing minimally invasive brain surgery by high-intensity focused ultrasound beams is
of great interest in cancer therapy. However, the skull induces strong aberrations both in …

3D-printed adaptive acoustic lens as a disruptive technology for transcranial ultrasound therapy using single-element transducers

G Maimbourg, A Houdouin, T Deffieux… - Physics in Medicine …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The development of multi-element arrays for better control of the shape of ultrasonic beams
has opened the way for focusing through highly aberrating media, such as the human skull …

Non-invasive transcranial ultrasound therapy based on a 3D CT scan: protocol validation and in vitro results

F Marquet, M Pernot, JF Aubry… - Physics in Medicine …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
A non-invasive protocol for transcranial brain tissue ablation with ultrasound is studied and
validated in vitro. The skull induces strong aberrations both in phase and in amplitude …

Optimal focusing by spatio-temporal inverse filter. I. Basic principles

M Tanter, JF Aubry, J Gerber, JL Thomas… - The Journal of the …, 2001 - pubs.aip.org
A focusing technique based on the inversion of the propagation operator relating an array of
transducers to a set of control points inside a medium was proposed in previous work …

Resolution limits of ultrafast ultrasound localization microscopy

Y Desailly, J Pierre, O Couture… - Physics in medicine & …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
As in other imaging methods based on waves, the resolution of ultrasound imaging is limited
by the wavelength. However, the diffraction-limit can be overcome by super-localizing single …

Pseudo Angular Momentum and Topological Charge Conservation<? format?> for Nonlinear Acoustical Vortices

JL Thomas, R Marchiano - Physical review letters, 2003 - APS
We study acoustical vortices (AVs) and their connection with optical vortices (OVs). We show
that AVs and OVs have the same properties if the concept of pseudomomentum is used …

Data-driven microseismic event localization: An application to the Oklahoma Arkoma basin hydraulic fracturing data

H Wang, T Alkhalifah, U bin Waheed… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The microseismic monitoring technique is widely applied to petroleum reservoirs to
understand the process of hydraulic fracturing. Geophones continuously record the …

Comparison between ray-tracing and full-wave simulation for transcranial ultrasound focusing on a clinical system using the transfer matrix formalism

T Bancel, A Houdouin, P Annic… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Only one high-intensity focused ultrasound device has been clinically approved for
transcranial brain surgery at the time of writing. The device operates within 650 and 720 kHz …