Low-intensity focused ultrasound
<div>Low-intensity focused ultrasound (LIFU)-induced acoustic droplet vaporization in phase-transition perfluoropentane nanodroplets modified by folate for ultrasound molecular imaging</div>
... used ultrasound (US) molecular probes, such as targeted microbubbles and perfluorocarbon emulsions, present a number of inherent problems including the conflict between US visualization and particle ...by ...
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Original Article Effects of low-intensity focused ultrasound on cartilage and synovium in an experimental model of osteoarthritis in rabbits
... of ultrasound phonophoresis ...of low-intensity pulsed unfo- cused therapeutic ultrasound at the same intensity and frequency and use MRI to guide the application of LIFUS in this ...
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Drug Release from Phase-Changeable Nanodroplets Triggered by Low-Intensity Focused Ultrasound
... adequate ultrasound irradiation power and duration of LIFU to induce phase-change of perfluorocarbon incorporated in ...average ultrasound-signal ...the ultrasound energy was focused onto the ...
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Review Paper: A Review on Brain Stimulation Using Low Intensity Focused Ultrasound
... of ultrasound wave on tissues (based on parameters; intensity, frequency, and period of stimulation) can be divided into thermal and nonthermal ...of ultrasound in high intensities lie in the thermal ...
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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 ...by low-intensity focused US (LIFU) ...
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Incorporating Radiation Oncology into Immunotherapy: proceedings from the ASTRO-SITC-NCI immunotherapy workshop
... locally-directed ultrasound therapy to gener- ate an in situ tumor ...work focused on the potential to use low-intensity focused ultrasound (LOFU) to initiate an unfolded protein ...
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Response of patients with locally advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma to high-intensity focused ultrasound treatment: a single-center, prospective, case series in China
... Notes: (A) Before treatment, pancreatic cancer invaded local blood vessels. an irregular low-density mass with 2.6×3.0 cm could be seen in the head of the pancreas. The boundaries between the lesion and the ...
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Ultrasound Guided Robot for Human Liver Biopsy using High Intensity Focused Ultrasound for Hemostasis
... disease. Ultrasound image guidance is being increasingly used to reduce associated procedural risks but post-biopsy complications still ...is low, it is too high for a diagnostic ...High Intensity ...
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Focused ultrasound transducer spatial peak intensity estimation: a comparison of methods
... 15 Acoustic power calibrations were performed using the 5% duty cycle used with the hydrophone measurements. For these acoustic power measurements the burst length was set to 64 times that used in hydrophone scans and ...
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Optimisation of treatment time in ultrasound guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) in the treatment of breast fibroadenomata
... 58 beam. This influences time per pulse because treated tissue has a different refractive index which results in more scattering and therefore a higher power is needed to get enough US waves to reach the targeted tissue. ...
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High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) For the Prostate Cancer: 5-year Experience
... is focused on the developed and implemented into clinical practice new effective, minimally invasive treatments for prostate cancer, HRPC and failure after EBRT and ...with low and high risk progression, ...
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High intensity focused ultrasound with surface cooling non invasive abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue reduction
... results published by several authors using other HIFU technologies like Solish and colleagues, (Solish et al., 2012) who treated 45 blinded subjects randomized to 3 passes of either 141, 156, or 177 J/cm 2 , showed no ...
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<p>Effective high intensity focused ultrasound treatment in recurrent aggressive breast fibromatosis: a case report</p>
... were focused on intra- or extra-abdominal locations without involvement of the ...tolerable. Low-grade fever, thrombocytopenia, skin burns, and nerve injury were observed, which resolved ...
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High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) Based Thrombolysis Using Multiple Frequency Excitations.
... and ultrasound mediated thrombolysis can be effective in vitro and in vivo without using thrombolytic drugs [134, 138, 141-144] and without apparent side ...local low- or no-flow environment is very ...
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High-intensity focused ultrasound-triggered nanoscale bubble-generating liposomes for efficient and safe tumor ablation under photoacoustic imaging monitoring
... was low risk of vascular or pulmonary ...of ultrasound contrast agent was simple air bubbles that could not pass through pulmonary circulation due to their large ...
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The combination therapy of high intensity focused ultrasound with radiotherapy in locally advanced pancreatic carcinoma
... In our subjects, the combined application of HIFU and radiotherapy significantly relieved pain in most pa- tients and had longer remission durations compared to simple HIFU, which only resulted in a 10-week remis- sion ...
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Damage effect of high intensity focused ultrasound on breast cancer tissues and their vascularities
... Radical mastectomy, with or without excision of the pectoral muscle, has long been accepted as an appropri- ate therapy for breast cancer. This treatment was based on the theory that aggressive local therapy for control ...
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Original Article Effect of high-intensity focused ultrasound ablation on endometriosis of the abdominal wall
... unit volume ablation was low. With regard to the use of the ultrasound contrast agent, no adverse reaction was documented before, dur- ing, and after the operation. In fact, the con- trast exhibited a ...
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Trans-abdominal in vivo placental vessel occlusion using High Intensity Focused Ultrasound.
... the target placental vessel following HIFU exposures. Pregnancies were monitored for 21 days using diagnostic ultrasound from one day before HIFU exposure until term, when post-mortem examination was performed. ...
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Deep tissue penetration of nanoparticles using pulsed-high intensity focused ultrasound
... Recently, ultrasound (US)-based drug delivery strategies have received attention to improve enhanced permeation and retention (EPR) effect-based passive targeting efficiency of nanoparticles in vitro and in vivo ...
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