Ultrasound is not only used as an imaging technique but targeted pulses of ultrasound can be used as a highly accurate treatment for a range of brain diseases. A review shows that the new treatments ...
A research team at Carnegie Mellon University has developed a new noninvasive brain stimulation technique, by showing how focused ultrasound affects the human brain. Using brainwave recordings from ...
Engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a technique that uses microbubbles and ultrasound to help relatively large ...
High-grade gliomas, especially glioblastoma (GBM) and others, remain among the most aggressive brain cancers, with few ...
Engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a technique that uses microbubbles and ultrasound to help relatively large cancer drugs enter tumor cells and cause them to self-destruct.
The median fraction of the gland reaching ablative temperatures on intra-procedural MRI thermometry was 78% (IQR 71-85), with 68% of cases comprising whole gland ablation and 32% sub-total ablation: ...