A review of low-intensity focused ultrasound pulsation

A Bystritsky, AS Korb, PK Douglas, MS Cohen… - Brain stimulation, 2011 - Elsevier
With the recent approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of Deep Brain
Stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson's Disease, dystonia and obsessive compulsive disorder …

MRI-guided focused ultrasound surgery

FA Jolesz - Annual review of medicine, 2009 - annualreviews.org
MRI-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) surgery is a noninvasive thermal ablation
method that uses magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for target definition, treatment …

Image-guided ultrasound phased arrays are a disruptive technology for non-invasive therapy

K Hynynen, RM Jones - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Focused ultrasound offers a non-invasive way of depositing acoustic energy deep into the
body, which can be harnessed for a broad spectrum of therapeutic purposes, including …

Focused ultrasound effects on nerve action potential in vitro

V Colucci, G Strichartz, F Jolesz, N Vykhodtseva… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2009 - Elsevier
Minimally invasive applications of thermal and mechanical energy to selective areas of the
human anatomy have led to significant advances in treatment of and recovery from typical …

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 develo** technology with
potential applications across a spectrum of indications traditionally within the domain of …

Focused ultrasound (FUS) for chronic pain management: approved and potential applications

L di Biase, E Falato, ML Caminiti… - Neurology Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Chronic pain is one of the leading causes of disability and disease burden worldwide,
accounting for a prevalence between 6.9% and 10% in the general population …

[HTML][HTML] A multifunctional theranostic nanoagent for dual-mode image-guided HIFU/chemo-synergistic cancer therapy

N Zhang, X Cai, W Gao, R Wang, C Xu, Y Yao… - Theranostics, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is deemed to be a promising noninvasive
therapeutic modality for cancers as well as non-neoplastic diseases. However, the accuracy …

Image-guided focused ultrasound modulates electrically evoked motor neuronal activity in the mouse peripheral nervous system in vivo

MG Kim, HAS Kamimura, SA Lee… - Journal of neural …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Focused ultrasound (FUS) has recently been demonstrated capable of exciting
motor neuronal activity. However, comprehensive understanding of elucidated excitatory …

Effects of high‐intensity focused ultrasound on nerve conduction

JL Foley, JW Little, S Vaezy - … & Nerve: Official Journal of the …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The effects of various exposures (intensity, duration) of high‐intensity focused ultrasound
(HIFU) on sciatic nerve conduction were investigated in vivo in rats. The objective was to …

Investigation of standing-wave formation in a human skull for a clinical prototype of a large-aperture, transcranial MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) phased …

J Song, A Pulkkinen, Y Huang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Standing-wave formation in an ex vivo human skull was investigated using a clinical
prototype of a 30-cm diameter with 15-cm radius of curvature, low-frequency (230 kHz) …