Focused Ultrasound Therapy

Focused Ultrasound therapy is a type ofradiation therapythat focuses multiple sources of ultrasound energy to target a specific area.

Contrast media is used to improve diagnostic imaging, and the shortage has affected millions of examinations.
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July 5, 2022 — Focused Ultrasound, an innovative, new procedure being used by USF Health Morsani College of Medicine ...

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2022年4月8日,医学博士克雷格·罗杰斯(Craig Rogers)为64岁的查尔斯·拉希德(Charles Rashid)进行了机器人高强度超声检查。Image courtesy of Henry Ford Health
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May 12, 2022 — Henry Ford Health is the first in Michigan to offer Robotic High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) for ...

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Richard Price, PhD, is a co-director of the new center. He is part of UVA's Department of Biomedical Engineering, a collaboration of the School of Medicine and the School of Engineering. Image courtesy of Tom Cogill for UVA Engineering
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May 12, 2022 — UVA Health and the Charlottesville-based Focused Ultrasound Foundation today announced the launch of the ...

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While doctors have used low-intensity ultrasound as a medical imaging tool since the 1950s, experts at the University of Waterloo are using and extending models that help capture how high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) can work on a cellular level.
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August 24, 2021 — Researchers are bringing the use of acoustic waves to target and destroy cancerous tumors closer to ...

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Registration is now open for the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 107th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, the world’s largest annual radiology forum, to be held at McCormick Place Chicago, Nov. 28 – Dec. 2, 2021
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July 21, 2021 — Registration is now open for the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 107th Scientific Assembly ...

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In a mouse model study of MRI-guided focused ultrasound-induced blood-brain barrier (BBB) opening at MRI field strengths ranging from ­approximately 0 T (outside the magnetic field) to 4.7 T, the static magnetic field dampened the detected microbubble cavitation signal and decreased the BBB opening volum
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July 13, 2021 — MRI-guided focused ultrasound combined with microbubbles can open the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and ...

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The study investigates targeted drug delivery by focused ultrasound for pancreatic cancer
News|Focused Ultrasound Therapy

July 1, 2021 — The University of Oxford announced commencement of enrollment for the Phase I PanDox study of ...

TimeJuly 01, 2021
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WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute staff prepare a patient for a first-in-the-world clinical trial to investigate the use of focused ultrasound technology to treat opioid use disorder. (WVU Photo/Brian Persinger)
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March 17, 2021 — On the heels of the country’s deadliest year for drug overdoses, the West Virginia University ...

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A new study by Rashi Mehta--a researcher with the WVU School of Medicine and Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute--finds that focused ultrasound may induce an immunological healing effect in the brains of Alzheimer's patients.
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March 2, 2021 — West Virginia University scientists used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans to show what happens ...

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Insightec plans to expand in Latin America through a partnership with Strattner
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February 16, 2021 — Insightec, a global healthcare company focused on creating the next generation of patient care ...

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Jeff Elias, MD, is a neurosurgeon at UVA Health and a pioneer in the field of focused ultrasound.
News|Focused Ultrasound Therapy

January 8, 2021 — A scalpel-free alternative to brain surgery has the potential to benefit people with Parkinson’s ...

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Companies to develop compatibility of Philips’ MR Ingenia 3.0T and 1.5T systems with the InSightec Exablate Neuro platform
News|Focused Ultrasound Therapy

December 18, 2020 — Philips and InSightec, a global healthcare company focused on the therapeutic power of acoustic ...

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José Obeso, MD, PhD, (left) of of the Centro Integral de Neurociencias (HM CINAC) in Madrid and Nir Lipsman, MD, PhD, (right) of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. Each doctor is leading a clinical trial using focused ultrasound to target the striatum in patients with Parkinson's disease.
News|Focused Ultrasound Therapy

October 30, 2020 — A team of researchers in Madrid, Spain, and another team in Toronto, Canada, are the first in the ...

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Neurosurgeon Jason Sheehan, M.D., Ph.D., of UVA Health, is pioneering the use of focused ultrasound to treat glioblastoma, the deadliest brain tumor. Image courtesy of UVA Health
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June 23, 2020 — An innovative use of focused ultrasound being pioneered at the University of Virginia School of Medicine ...

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Richard J. Price, Ph.D., of the University of Virginia's School of Medicine and School of Engineering, is using focused soundwaves to overcome the natural 'blood-brain barrier,' which protects the brain from harmful pathogens. Photo courtesy of Dan Addison | UVA Communications
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May 7, 2020 — University of Virginia researchers are pioneering the use of focused ultrasound to defy the brain's ...

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Insightec's Exablate Neuro Approved With GE Signa Premier MRI in U.S. and Europe
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2019年7月10日- GE医疗保健和insight tec宣布美国食品和药物管理局(FDA)批准和CE标志…

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Clinical Trial Explores Opening Blood-Brain Barrier in Fight Against Alzheimer's
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May 9, 2019 — A new clinical trial at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and two other sites is testing an ...

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Houston Methodist Hospital Acquires Focal One High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound System
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March 19, 2019 — EDAP TMS SA announced that Houston Methodist Hospital, one of the first hospitals in the U.S. to offer ...

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FDA Approves Exablate Neuro for Tremor-Dominant Parkinson's Treatment
Technology|Focused Ultrasound Therapy

December 21, 2018 — Insightec announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an expansion of ...

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FDA Approves Insightec's Exablate Neuro Compatibility With Siemens MRI Scanners
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October 1, 2018 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the compatibility of Insightec’s Exablate Neuro ...

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