Ultrasound can penetrate deep into tissues and interact with human tissue via thermal and
mechanical mechanisms. The ability to focus an ultrasound beam and its energy onto …

High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) or focused ultrasound (FUS) is a promising
modality to treat tumors in a complete, non invasive fashion where online image guidance …

Background Radical whole-gland therapy can lead to significant genitourinary and rectal
side-effects for men with localised prostate cancer. We report on whether selective focal …

Purpose: Men with localized prostate cancer currently face a number of treatment options
that treat the entire prostate. These can cause significant sexual and urinary side effects …

Sonodynamic therapy (SDT) is a new modality using ultrasound (US) to activate certain
chemical sensitizers for cancer therapy. In this study, the effect of US combined with a …

A deformable registration method is described that enables automatic alignment of magnetic
resonance (MR) and 3D transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) images of the prostate gland. The …

In the past two decades, high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) in combination with
diagnostic ultrasound (USgFUS) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRgFUS) opened new …

Acknowledgements: The authors wish to thank Sima Rabinowitz, SR for editorial assistance.
The authors wish to acknowledge funding support from the Deane Prostate Health, ISMMS …

Therapeutic ultrasound is defined as the use of ultrasound for the treatment of diseased or
injured organs or bodily structures and is quite distinct from diagnostic ultrasound. There …

What's known on the subject? and What does the study add? Novel therapeutic methods
have emerged in recent years as 'focal'treatment alternatives in which cancer foci can be …