Invasive open surgery used to be compulsory to access tumor mass to perform excision or
resection. Development of minimally invasive laparoscopic procedures followed, as well as …

Frequency-dependent effective sensitive element radius is a key parameter for elucidating
physical mechanisms of hydrophone operation. In addition, it is essential to know to correct …

Passive cavitation imaging (PCI) with a clinical diagnostic array results in poor axial
localization of bubble activity due to the size of the point spread function (PSF). The …

This study aimed to realize the automatic diagnosis of fatty degeneration of uterine fibroids.
In this study, the traditional nonlocal means (NLM) algorithm was improved by changing the …

Background Focused ultrasound (FUS) combined with microbubbles is a promising
technique for noninvasive, reversible, and spatially targeted blood-brain barrier opening …

Typically, focused ultrasound (FUS)-mediated blood-brain barrier (BBB) opening requires
multiple components that include the therapeutic transducer itself and a separate monitoring …

The measurement of acoustic fields generated by ultrasonic transducers is important for
determining the focal length, lateral resolution, and amplitudes of the lateral and grating …

Over the past decades, ultrasound imaging has made considerable progress based on the
advancement of imaging systems as well as transducer technology. With the need for …

Abstract Treatment of brain diseases remains extremely challenging partly due to the fact
that critical drug delivery is hindered by the blood-brain barrier (BBB), a specialized and …

Cavitation map** has emerged as a reliable tool to monitor non-thermal focused
ultrasound therapies based on cavitating microbubbles in real time. However, in transcranial …