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High-intensity focused ultrasound for the treatment of fibroids: A single-center experience in Singapore

open access: yesGynecology and Minimally Invasive Therapy, 2023
Objectives: Uterine fibroids and adenomyosis are common gynecological conditions that often require surgical treatment. Minimally invasive interventions such as ultrasound-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound (USgHIFU) are gaining popularity as they ...
Smita Jindal   +3 more
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The relationship between tobacco and breast cancer incidence: A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies

open access: yesFrontiers in Oncology, 2022
BackgroundThe effect of tobacco on breast cancer (BC) is controversial. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between tobacco and BC.MethodsA search was conducted in PubMed, EBSCO, Web of Science and Cochrane Library databases ...
Yujing He   +5 more
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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
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Numerical Simulation of the Effect of Temperature- dependent Acoustic and Thermal Parameters on the Focal Temperature and Thermal Lesion of Biological Tissue Irradiated by HIFU [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Journal of Medical Physics, 2023
Introduction: Accurate temperature and thermal lesion prediction is very important for high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) in the treatment of tumors.
HU DONG, GANG LIU, GAOFENG PENG
doaj   +1 more source

Noninvasive and Spatiotemporal Control of DNAzyme-Based Imaging of Metal Ions In Vivo Using High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound.

open access: yesJournal of the American Chemical Society, 2022
Detecting metal ions in vivo with a high spatiotemporal resolution is critical to understanding the roles of the metal ions in both healthy and disease states.
Xiaojing Wang   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Focused ultrasound using a novel targeting method four-tract tractography for magnetic resonance–guided high-intensity focused ultrasound targeting

open access: yesBrain Communications, 2022
Magnetic resonance–guided high-intensity focused ultrasound thalamotomy is a Food and Drug Administration–approved treatment for essential tremor. The target, the ventral intermediate nucleus of the thalamus, is not visualized on standard, anatomic MRI ...
F. Feltrin   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Immune modulation resulting from MR-guided high intensity focused ultrasound in a model of murine breast cancer

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) rapidly and non-invasively destroys tumor tissue. Here, we sought to assess the immunomodulatory effects of MR-guided HIFU and its combination with the innate immune agonist CpG and checkpoint inhibitor anti-PD-1.
B. Fite   +18 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Clinical Intervention Using Focused Ultrasound (FUS) Stimulation of the Brain in Diverse Neurological Disorders

open access: yesFrontiers in Neurology, 2022
Various surgical techniques and pharmaceutical treatments have been developed to improve the current technologies of treating brain diseases. Focused ultrasound (FUS) is a new brain stimulation modality that can exert a therapeutic effect on diseased ...
Hongchae Baek   +8 more
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An Introduction to High Intensity Focused Ultrasound: Systematic Review on Principles, Devices, and Clinical Applications

open access: yesJournal of Clinical Medicine, 2020
Ultrasound can penetrate deep into tissues and interact with human tissue via thermal and mechanical mechanisms. The ability to focus an ultrasound beam and its energy onto millimeter-size targets was a significant milestone in the development of ...
Z. Izadifar   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Focused ultrasound for treatment of peripheral brain tumors [PDF]

open access: yesExploration of Drug Science, 2023
Malignant brain tumors are the leading cause of cancer-related death in children and remain a significant cause of morbidity and mortality throughout all demographics.
Phillip Mitchell Johansen   +5 more
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