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Cost-effectiveness of magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound surgery for treatment of uterine fibroids [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the cost-effectiveness of a treatment strategy for symptomatic uterine fibroids, which starts with Magnetic Resonance-guided Focused Ultrasound Surgery (MRgFUS) as compared with current practice comprising uterine artery ...
Cairns, JA   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Letrozole as premedication of high intensity focused ultrasound treatment of uterine fibroids: A retrospective observation study

open access: yesFrontiers in Medicine, 2022
BackgroundNo reports on Letrozole as a pretreatment before ablation of uterine fibroid with high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), so a retrospective observation study was performed to evaluate the response of different pre-HIFU medication.MethodsWe ...
Wei-Chun Chen   +16 more
doaj   +1 more source

Focused ultrasound neuromodulation on a multiwell MEA [PDF]

open access: yesBioelectronic Medicine, 2021
Abstract Background Microelectrode arrays (MEA) enable the measurement and stimulation of the electrical activity of cultured cells. The integration of other neuromodulation methods will significantly enhance the application range of MEAs to study their effects on neurons.
Marta Saccher   +5 more
openaire   +6 more sources

Numerical Evaluation of the Human Skull with Focused Ultrasound Stimulation

open access: yes, 2023
Transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation is a promising brain stimulation technique for its noninvasiveness and higher spatial resolutions and is used for various neuromodulation applications.
Wen, Peng   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Minimally invasive treatment of cirrhotic secondary hypersplenism with high-intensity focused ultrasound

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) has been reported to be a minimally invasive effective method for the treatment of secondary hypersplenism. However, neither the short-term efficacy nor the indications and/or contraindications have been described
Xiumei Zhang   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Focused Ultrasound for Neuromodulation [PDF]

open access: yesNeurotherapeutics, 2019
For more than 70 years, the promise of noninvasive neuromodulation using focused ultrasound has been growing while diagnostic ultrasound established itself as a foundation of clinical imaging. Significant technical challenges have been overcome to allow transcranial focused ultrasound to deliver spatially restricted energy into the nervous system at a ...
openaire   +2 more sources

An incoherent HIFU transducer for treatment of the medial branch nerve: Numerical study and in vivo validation

open access: yesInternational Journal of Hyperthermia, 2020
Background Chronic back pain due to facet related degenerative changes affects 4-6 million patients a year in the United States. Patients refractory to conservative therapy may warrant targeted injections of steroids into the joint or percutaneous medial
J. Chen   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Respiratory organ motion in interventional MRI : tracking, guiding and modeling [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Respiratory organ motion is one of the major challenges in interventional MRI, particularly in interventions with therapeutic ultrasound in the abdominal region. High-intensity focused ultrasound found an application in interventional MRI for noninvasive
Celicanin, Zarko
core   +1 more source

Evaluation of Thiel cadaveric model for MRI-guided stereotactic procedures in neurosurgery [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided deep brain stimulation (DBS) and high frequency focused ultrasound (FUS) is an emerging modality to treat several neurological disorders of the brain.
Eljamel, Sam   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Ultrasound‐mediated delivery of flexibility‐tunable polymer drug conjugates for treating glioblastoma

open access: yesBioengineering & Translational Medicine, 2023
Effective chemotherapy delivery for glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is limited by drug transport across the blood–brain barrier and poor efficacy of single agents.
Tao Sun   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

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