Cavitation monitoring, treatment strategy, and acoustic simulations of focused ultrasound blood-brain barrier disruption in patients with glioblastoma

N McDannold, PY Wen, DA Reardon… - Journal of Controlled …, 2024 - Elsevier
Purpose We report our experience disrupting the blood-brain barrier (BBB) to improve drug
delivery in glioblastoma patients receiving temozolomide chemotherapy. The goals of this …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical investigation of layered homogeneous skull model for simulations of transcranial focused ultrasound

H Seo, M Han, J Choi, S Kim, J Park, EH Lee - … : Technology at the Neural …, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract Background and Objectives The influence of the intracranial pressure field must be
discussed with the development of a single-element transducer for low-intensity transcranial …

A rapid element pressure field simulation method for transcranial phase correction in focused ultrasound therapy

P Xu, N Wu, G Shen - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Transcranial focused ultrasound ablation has emerged as a promising technique for treating
neurological disorders. The clinical system exclusively employed the ray tracing method to …

Transcranial Ultrasonic Focusing by a Phased Array Based on Micro-CT Images

Y Yin, S Yan, J Huang, B Zhang - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we utilize micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) to obtain micro-CT images
with a resolution of 60 μm and establish a micro-CT model based on the k-wave toolbox …

High‐efficient and wireless transcranial ultrasound excitation based on electromagnetic acoustic transducer

L Huang, S Qiao, W Ling, W Wang, Q Feng… - Medical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background The generation of transcranial ultrasound is usually based on the piezoelectric
effect, so it is necessary to attach transducers around the skull. However, the skull will cause …

Influence of shear waves on transcranial ultrasound propagation in cortical brain regions

Y Gao, B Werner, B Lauber, Y Chen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Transcranial ultrasound applications require accurate simulations to predict intracranial
acoustic pressure fields. The current gold standard typically consists of calculating a …

[PDF][PDF] Probing Phased-Array Focused Ultrasound Transducers Using Realistic 3D In-Silico Trabecular Skull Models: A Numerical Study 2

F Rossano, M Liberti, F Apollonio, G Ruocco, S Maria - osf.io
Transcranial focused ultrasound has emerged as a promising and innovative
neuromodulation technique 29 with the potential to foster brain disease therapies. Its …