focused ultrasound therapy
Prospective study on the effectiveness of magnetic resonance guided focused ultrasound therapy in the treatment of uterine fibroids
... GUIDED FOCUSED ULTRASOUND THERAPY IN THE TREATMENT OF UTERINE FIBROIDS” was done by me at The Institute of Social Obstetrics, Govt Kasturba Gandhi Hospital, Madras Medical College during 2010-2013 ...
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Long Term Outcomes and Prognosis of Transrectal High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Therapy for Patients with Localized Prostate Cancer—Therapy after Recurrence and Predictive Factors
... intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) in an experimental study of 10 patients with prostate ...HIFU therapy has the advantages of fewer complications, simplicity of the procedure, shorter treat- ment ...
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Potential of minimally invasive procedures in the treatment of uterine fibroids: a focus on magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound therapy
... noninvasive therapy for eligible ...first-choice therapy for many women and an important tool in the personalized therapy arsenal for uterine ...
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High-intensity focused ultrasound therapy in combination with gemcitabine for unresectable pancreatic carcinoma
... effects on blood vessels with a diameter .200 μm, while it will only block the vasa vasorum with a diameter ,200 μm. These properties became the foundation of ablation therapy to advanced pancreatic cancer. Severe ...
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Salvage Transrectal High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Therapy for Patients with Recurrence of Vesico Urethral Anastomosis after Radical Prostatectomy
... DOI: 10.4236/oju.2019.910020 176 Open Journal of Urology The limitation in our retrospective study is that there were many patients without biopsy-confirmed local recurrence. As for the histological confirmation, it was ...
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Bedside Focused Ultrasound in Necrotizing Fasciitis: The “Black-hole Sign”
... The patient underwent prompt surgical debridement with clinical benefit: soft tissue necrosis and muscle ischemia were confirmed. Several tissue cultures and hemocultures were collected and both of them yielded ...
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Focused cardiopulmonary ultrasound for assessment of dyspnea in a resource-limited setting
... hand-held ultrasound or “sonoscope” used rou- tinely in clinical practice has recently gained support, and with limited access to other diagnostic tests, the value of ultrasound in this population is ...
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High intensity focused ultrasound for prostate cancer: a practice guideline
... focussed ultrasound (HIFU) treatment of localized prostate ...intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU); results of the first French prospective study on patients not previously treated; minimum of five ...
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Adverse events of focused ultrasound surgery for uterine fibroids and adenomyosis
... Abstract: Uterine fibroids and adenomyosis are two common gynecological benign tumors that deteriorate women’s quality of life. The prevalence of uterine fibroid and adenomyosis is approximately 70%–80% and 5%–70%, ...
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Ultrasound Guided Robot for Human Liver Biopsy using High Intensity Focused Ultrasound for Hemostasis
... A typical US imaging system is shown in Figure 1. It consists of an ultrasound transducer that produces the US wave at a fixed frequency and a receiver to sense the backscattered signal. Generally the same ...
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Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging for the Detection of Focused Ultrasound-Induced Blood-Brain Barrier Opening
... The inner transducer was customized to have a central frequency of 40 MHz with a −6 dB fractional bandwidth of 94% (element size = 3 mm, focal length = 9 mm) for acquiring ultrasound B-mode images. The arbitrary ...
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Phase-shift, targeted nanoparticles for ultrasound molecular imaging by low intensity focused ultrasound irradiation
... Purpose: Ultrasound (US) molecular imaging provides a non-invasive way to visualize tumor tissues at molecular and cell levels and could improve ...low-intensity focused US (LIFU) ...
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A study into the foundation of Compassion Focused Therapy
... positive mental health and therefore many researchers have focused on this part of the concept of compassion the most (Terry & Leary, 2011)(Allen & Leary, 2010)(Leary et al., 2007)( Neff, Rude, & ...
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Evaluation of an Ultrasound Guided Focused Ultrasound CMUT Probe for Targeted Therapy Applications
... 40% DC and a 1 kHz pulse repetition frequency (PRF), with a minimum PNP of 1.25 MPa (or 2.5 MPa PTP). The second critical aspect is that working on small animals involves a small exploration depth, which requires the ...
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A Thumbnail Map for Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
... A highly effective solution-focused interview would be one that assists the client to proceed from the language of ‘what I don’t want’ to some ‘positive possibilities.’ This remark should be qualified with the ...
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The essence of process-experiential : emotion-focused therapy
... Process-Experiential/Emotion-Focused Therapy (PE-EFT; Elliott et ...this therapy: achieving empathic attunement, fostering an empathic, caring therapeutic bond, facilitating task collaboration, ...
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Solution Focused Play Therapy with Children and Families
... – Families/Children are Unique, – Parents Play Important Role – Parents Want Child to be Well – Children are Amazingly Creative – Activities/Toys are Conversational Tools (rath[r] ...
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Emotion-focused therapy for clients with autistic process
... In EFT, the strategy for therapy is informed by case formulation, and different parts of this case conceptualization interact with each other. Therefore, for clients with autistic process, seeing how others ...
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Focused abdominal ultrasound in preoperative liver surgery staging: a prospective study
... The relatively high sensitivity rates achieved by US when performed by experienced radiologists and focus- ing only on liver evaluation, with no significant differ- ence when compared with nonstandardized CT and MRI in ...
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High-intensity focused ultrasound for thyroid nodule ablation: the evidence to date
... High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is the latest advance in treatment modalities, which is a noninvasive proce- dure that permits localized target destruction without affecting the surrounding ...HIFU ...
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