[PDF] Top 20 Robotic Transducer Control During High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Treatment of Atherosclerosis

... standard treatment modality for atherosclerosis in the future, the experimental setup needs to be more ...robot control software can be integrated, and may eventually be combined in a control ... See full document

... Results: The literature review yielded limited evidence. No ran- domized controlled trials or meta-analyses comparing HIFU with currently accepted management approaches were identified. The body of evidence is primarily ... See full document

... of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) therapy combined with gemcitabine in treating unresectable pancreatic ...the control group (n=22) received gemcitabine ...the control ... See full document

... aggressive treatment, active observation has been another strategy recommended ...another treatment option, especially for unresectable ...local control compared to sur- gery ... See full document

... after treatment causing the pressure on the nerve to be reduced; and (4) HIFU may also result in acoustic pressure and cavitation-driven changes in ion flux through both existing ion channels and defects formed in ... See full document

... Results: After combination therapy of HIFU and Gemox, severe complications were rarely reported, and no treatment-related death occurred. The rate of three or four-degree myelo- suppression was low, and no obvious ... See full document

... the ultrasound energy, although there were no such complications in this ...careful treatment planning of HIFU exposures to minimise these ...human treatment could be implemented. The protocol, ... See full document

... Though most of the robots for surgery are in the phase of being validated for their usage and application in animal or human trial experimental setting, a hand full of them made it to the list of clinically adopted ... See full document

... therapeutic ultrasound can create precise defects in different cardiac tissue without damage to the surrounding ...therapeutic ultrasound balloon catheter to isolate pulmonary veins (PVs) outside the ostia ... See full document

... This treatment was based on the theory that aggressive local therapy for control of breast cancer, chest wall, and regional lymph nodes would have a substantial benefit on survival ...the treatment ... See full document

... The treatment procedure consists of 6 steps: 1) pretreat- ment ultrasonography: this is performed with a handheld transducer, to acquire reference images of the thyroid nodule; 2) VTU positioning: the VTU ... See full document

... ing high intensity focused ultrasound, while sparing the surrounding organs and minimizing the number of ...produced during a simu- lated ...concentric-ring transducer with L = ... See full document

... Doppler ultrasound in the sheep. Non-invasive colour flow Doppler 262 ultrasound improves the accuracy of HIFU targeting when compared to surgical exposure of 263 visual identification of blood vessels ... See full document

... safe treatment of stroke using HIFU because a higher frequency yields a smaller focal size, reducing the risk of tissue erosion outside the desired region [13, ...as high inertial cavitation thresholds at ... See full document

... LAPC. During HIFU treatment, ultrasonic energy is focused on the target lesions, resulting in coagulative necrosis of lesions by thermal and cavitation ...HIFU treatment is reported to have ... See full document

... the control group (Figure ...the treatment effect, suggesting that it could be an excellent synergist of HIFU for tumor ...and control groups all survived HIFU ... See full document

... a high intensity focal point, however improved treatment delivery and monitoring requires use of more complex ...the transducer and the focus ...HIFU transducer is required. ... See full document

... between treatment arms, and obtained a mean reduction in waist circumference of ...multiple treatment protocols for HIFU of the abdomen and ...(3) high-fluence (60 J/cm 2 ) ...post treatment, ... See full document

... High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is a new non-invasive treatment ...the treatment of CSP with HIFU ...HIFU treatment of CSP is fea- sible ...this treatment ... See full document

... pHIFU treatment, the hydrodynamic size distribution of FCNPs was measured using dynamic laser scattering (DLS) after pHIFU ...pHIFU treatment, the hydrodynamic size distribution of FCNPs was measured by DLS ... See full document