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    High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), or MR-guided Focused Ultrasound Surgery is an incision-less therapeutic technique that uses non-ionizing ultrasonic...
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  •  Recent research since 2020 has focused on deep brain stimulation for addiction treatment, as well as focused ultrasound to treat tremor, addiction and...
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  • assisted thrombolysis It may use focused ultrasound or unfocused ultrasound. In the above applications, the ultrasound passes through human tissue where...
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  • Focused-ultrasound-mediated diagnostics or FUS-mediated diagnostics are an area of clinical diagnostic tools that use ultrasound to detect diseases and...
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  • The Focused Ultrasound Foundation (FUF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, that promotes the use...
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  • Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation may refer to: Focused Ultrasound Foundation - medical foundation based in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States...
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    using focused ultrasound for the delivery of medication past the blood-brain barrier (BBB) is being tested. At the point where the ultrasound beams converge...
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  • high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) beams are focused on a tissue, that are controlled using MR thermal imaging. Due to the high energy at the focus, the temperature...
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    The lesion should be less than 4 cm in diameter. High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is a newer technique for the treatment of malignant and benign...
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    Ultrasound is sound with frequencies greater than 20 kilohertz. This frequency is the approximate upper audible limit of human hearing in healthy young...
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    should be treated with the appropriate pharmacological therapies. "Focused Ultrasound" is a treatment that was approved for coverage in the U.S. in about...
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    Focused ultrasound for intracrainial drug delivery is a non-invasive technique that uses high-frequency sound waves (focused ultrasound, or FUS) to disrupt...
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    Focused assessment with sonography in trauma (commonly abbreviated as FAST) is a rapid bedside ultrasound examination performed by surgeons, emergency...
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    MRI to guide high-intensity ultrasound waves to destroy an osteoid osteoma. This treatment, high-intensity focused ultrasound (MR-HIFU), is an image-guided...
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    Medical ultrasound includes diagnostic techniques (mainly imaging techniques) using ultrasound, as well as therapeutic applications of ultrasound. In diagnosis...
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  • of Focused Ultrasound Applied With an Ultrasound Contrast Agent on the Tight Junctional Integrity of the Brain Microvascular Endothelium". Ultrasound in...
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  • temperature; it is a desired effect of treatments such as high intensity focused ultrasound applied to cancerous cells. Coagulative necrosis is most commonly...
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  • Ultrasound energy, simply known as ultrasound, is a type of mechanical energy called sound characterized by vibrating or moving particles within a medium...
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  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPcU7HFumIk High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU): targeted beam of focused ultrasonic waves that accumulates high energy and...
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    resonance guided focused ultrasound, is a non-invasive intervention (requiring no incision) that uses high intensity focused ultrasound waves to destroy...
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  • their diffusion into the brain. This is counteracted by a focused ultrasound. The ultrasound increases the permeability of the blood–brain barrier by causing...
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  • and external-beam radiation therapy, proton therapy, high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), cryosurgery, hormonal therapy, chemotherapy, or some combination...
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    an ambulatory setting. Ultrasound waves are focused and produce heat enabling to destroy thyroid nodules. Focused ultrasounds have been used to treat...
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  • "The Tumor" is a short story by John Grisham, telling about the focused ultrasound process through the case of a fictional character named Paul. This story...
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    disruption induced by focused ultrasound and circulating preformed microbubbles appears to be characterized by the mechanical index". Ultrasound in Medicine &...
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  • Transcranial pulsed ultrasound (TPU) uses low intensity, low frequency ultrasound (LILFU) to stimulate the brain. In 2002, Dr. Alexander Bystritsky first...
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  • examples of ultrasound modalities include Doppler ultrasound, focused ultrasound, and echocardiography. The key component of using most ultrasound devices...
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  • is a privately held medical device company that sells MR guided Focused Ultrasound equipment. The technology can destroy deep tissue in the body without...
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    Sonic weapon (redirect from Ultrasound gun)
    or incapacitate an opponent. Some sonic weapons make a focused beam of sound or of ultrasound; others produce an area field of sound. As of 2023[update]...
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    ineffective, surgery (such as deep brain stimulation or high-intensity focused ultrasound), subcutaneous waking-day apomorphine infusion, and enteral dopa pumps...
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