Histotripsy methods in mechanical disintegration of tissue: Towards clinical applications

VA Khokhlova, JB Fowlkes, WW Roberts… - International journal …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
In high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) therapy, an ultrasound beam is focused within
the body to locally affect the targeted site without damaging intervening tissues. The most …

The histotripsy spectrum: differences and similarities in techniques and instrumentation

RP Williams, JC Simon, VA Khokhlova… - International Journal …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Since its inception about two decades ago, histotripsy–a non-thermal mechanical tissue
ablation technique–has evolved into a spectrum of methods, each with distinct potentiating …

Effects of ultrasound frequency and tissue stiffness on the histotripsy intrinsic threshold for cavitation

E Vlaisavljevich, KW Lin, A Maxwell, MT Warnez… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2015 - Elsevier
Histotripsy is an ultrasound ablation method that depends on the initiation of a cavitation
bubble cloud to fractionate soft tissue. Previous work has indicated that a cavitation cloud …

Effects of tissue stiffness, ultrasound frequency, and pressure on histotripsy-induced cavitation bubble behavior

E Vlaisavljevich, KW Lin, MT Warnez… - Physics in Medicine …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Histotripsy is an ultrasound ablation method that controls cavitation to fractionate soft tissue.
In order to effectively fractionate tissue, histotripsy requires cavitation bubbles to rapidly …

Modeling tissue-selective cavitation damage

L Mancia, E Vlaisavljevich, N Yousefi… - Physics in Medicine …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The destructive growth and collapse of cavitation bubbles are used for therapeutic purposes
in focused ultrasound procedures and can contribute to tissue damage in traumatic injuries …

Aberration correction in abdominal histotripsy

E Yeats, TL Hall - International Journal of Hyperthermia, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In transabdominal histotripsy, ultrasound pulses are focused into the body to noninvasively
destroy soft tissues via cavitation. However, the ability to focus is limited by phase …

Effects of frequency on bubble-cloud behavior and ablation efficiency in intrinsic threshold histotripsy

C Edsall, E Ham, H Holmes, TL Hall… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Histotripsy is a non-thermal focused ultrasound ablation method that destroys
tissue through the generation of a cavitation bubble cloud. Previous work studying intrinsic …

[HTML][HTML] Endoscopic coregistered ultrasound imaging and precision histotripsy: Initial in vivo evaluation

G LandryThomas, G MallayMatthew… - BME …, 2022 - spj.science.org
Objective. Initial performance evaluation of a system for simultaneous high-resolution
ultrasound imaging and focused mechanical submillimeter histotripsy ablation in rat brains …

Targeted lesion generation through the skull without aberration correction using histotripsy

JR Sukovich, Z Xu, Y Kim, H Cao… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study demonstrates the ability of histotripsy to generate targeted lesions through the
skullcap without using aberration correction. Histotripsy therapy was delivered using a 500 …

Effects of temperature on the histotripsy intrinsic threshold for cavitation

E Vlaisavljevich, Z Xu, AD Maxwell… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Histotripsy is an ultrasound ablation method that depends on the initiation of a dense
cavitation bubble cloud to fractionate soft tissue. Previous work has demonstrated that a …