Histotripsy: a method for mechanical tissue ablation with ultrasound

Z Xu, TD Khokhlova, CS Cho… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Histotripsy is a relatively new therapeutic ultrasound technology to mechanically liquefy
tissue into subcellular debris using high-amplitude focused ultrasound pulses. In contrast to …

A review of the development of histotripsy for extremity tumor ablation with a canine comparative oncology model to inform human treatments

AN Hay, L Ruger, A Hsueh, E Vickers… - International Journal …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Cancer is a devasting disease resulting in millions of deaths worldwide in both humans and
companion animals, including dogs. Treatment of cancer is complex and challenging and …

Ablative and immunostimulatory effects of histotripsy ablation in a murine osteosarcoma model

AN Hay, KM Imran, A Hendricks-Wenger, JM Gannon… - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Background: Osteosarcoma (OS) is the most frequently occurring malignant bone tumor in
humans, primarily affecting children and adolescents. Significant advancements in treatment …

Characterizing the ablative effects of histotripsy for osteosarcoma: in vivo study in dogs

LN Ruger, AN Hay, ER Vickers, SL Coutermarsh-Ott… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Histotripsy is a non-invasive focused ultrasound therapy, in development,
for treating osteosarcoma (OS). Small pilot studies describing ex vivo and in vivo histotripsy …

Insights from in vivo preclinical cancer studies with histotripsy

T Worlikar, T Hall, M Zhang… - International Journal …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Histotripsy is the first noninvasive, non-ionizing, and non-thermal ablation technique that
mechanically fractionates target tissue into acellular homogenate via controlled acoustic …

Investigating cell death responses associated with histotripsy ablation of canine osteosarcoma

AN Hay, ER Vickers, M Patwardhan… - International Journal …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Background Osteosarcoma (OS) is the most frequently occurring primary bone tumor in dogs
and people and innovative treatment options are profoundly needed. Histotripsy is an …

Histotripsy ablation for the treatment of feline injection site sarcomas: a first-in-cat in vivo feasibility study

L Ruger, E Yang, S Coutermarsh-Ott… - International Journal …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Feline soft tissue sarcoma (STS) and injection site sarcoma (fISS) are rapidly
growing tumors with low metastatic potential, but locally aggressive behavior. Histotripsy is a …

The use of histotripsy as intratumoral immunotherapy beyond tissue ablation—the rationale for exploring the immune effects of histotripsy

T Osada, X Jiang, Y Zhao, M Chen… - International Journal …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Mechanical high-intensity focused ultrasound (M-HIFU), which includes histotripsy, is a non-
ionizing, non-thermal ablation technology that can be delivered by noninvasive methods …

Boiling histotripsy using dual-frequency protocol on murine breast tumor model and promotes immune activation

T Qi, Y **g, J Deng, J Chang, W Sun… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Histotripsy is an ultrasound-guided, noninvasive, nonthermal ablation therapy that can
mechanically lyse target tissues. There have been no reports of enhanced histotripsy for …

In silico assessment of histotripsy-induced changes in catheter-directed thrombolytic delivery

KB Bader, K Flores Basterrechea… - Frontiers in Physiology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: For venous thrombosis patients, catheter-directed thrombolytic therapy is the
standard-of-care to recanalize the occluded vessel. Limitations with thrombolytic drugs make …