Immunomodulation and targeted drug delivery with high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU): Principles and mechanisms

H Ashar, A Ranjan - Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2023 - Elsevier
High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is a non-invasive and non-ionizing sonic energy-
based therapeutic technology for inducing thermal and non-thermal effects in tissues …

Thermometry and ablation monitoring with ultrasound

MA Lewis, RM Staruch, R Chopra - International Journal of …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
In this review we present the current status of ultrasound thermometry and ablation
monitoring, with emphasis on the diverse approaches published in the literature and with an …

Microbubbles used for contrast enhanced ultrasound and theragnosis: a review of principles to applications

H Lee, H Kim, H Han, M Lee, S Lee, H Yoo… - Biomedical Engineering …, 2017 - Springer
Ultrasound was developed several decades ago as a useful imaging modality, and it
became the second most popular diagnostic tool due to its non-invasiveness, real-time …

Improved source localization in passive acoustic map** using delay-multiply-and-sum beamforming with virtually augmented aperture

CC Shen, YA Chen, HY Ku - Ultrasonics, 2023 - Elsevier
High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is a promising non-invasive treatment method
whose applications include tissue ablation, hemostasis, thrombolysis and blood–brain …

Multifunctional theranostic contrast agent for photoacoustics-and ultrasound-based tumor diagnosis and ultrasound-stimulated local tumor therapy

H Moon, J Kang, C Sim, J Kim, H Lee, JH Chang… - Journal of Controlled …, 2015 - Elsevier
Biomedical imaging-guided cancer therapy should have capabilities of both accurate tumor
diagnosis and high therapeutic efficacy for the personalized treatment. Various biomedical …

Using passive cavitation images to classify high-intensity focused ultrasound lesions

KJ Haworth, VA Salgaonkar, NM Corregan… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2015 - Elsevier
Passive cavitation imaging provides spatially resolved monitoring of cavitation emissions.
However, the diffraction limit of a linear imaging array results in relatively poor range …

Increased light penetration due to ultrasound-induced air bubbles in optical scattering media

H Kim, JH Chang - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Light is an attractive tool for high spatial-and contrast-resolution imaging, highly sensitive
molecular imaging, and target-selective therapy, and it does not exhibit the risks associated …

Design and fabrication of double-focused ultrasound transducers to achieve tight focusing

J Jang, JH Chang - Sensors, 2016 - mdpi.com
Beauty treatment for skin requires a high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) transducer to
generate coagulative necrosis in a small focal volume (eg, 1 mm3) placed at a shallow …

Pulse inversion enhances the passive map** of microbubble-based ultrasound therapy

AN Pouliopoulos, MT Burgess, EE Konofagou - Applied physics letters, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Therapeutic ultrasound combined with preformed circulating microbubbles has enabled non-
invasive and targeted drug delivery into the brain, tumors, and blood clots. Monitoring the …

FUS-net: u-Net-based FUS interference filtering

SA Lee, EE Konofagou - IEEE transactions on medical imaging, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Imaging applications tailored towards ultrasound-based treatment, such as high intensity
focused ultrasound (FUS), where higher power ultrasound generates a radiation force for …