Clinical utility of a microbubble-enhancing contrast (“SonoVue”) in treatment of uterine fibroids with high intensity focused ultrasound: a retrospective study

S Peng, Y Xiong, K Li, M He, Y Deng, L Chen… - European journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
… To evaluate the clinical value of the contrast agent SonoVue in the treatment of uterine
fibroids with ultrasound-guided high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) therapeutic ablation. …

… of different types of uterine fibroids, as assessed with T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging, on ultrasound-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound ablation

WP Zhao, JY Chen, WZ Chen - Ultrasound in medicine & biology, 2015 - Elsevier
… -intense uterine fibroids and the effects of these characteristics on USgHIFU ablation were
investigated in the present study. The growth of uterine fibroids … -intense uterine fibroid tissues. …

Factors affecting effects of ultrasound guided high intensity focused ultrasound for single uterine fibroids: a retrospective analysis

HJ Fan, JP Cun, W Zhao, JQ Huang, GF Yi… - International Journal …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: To investigate factors affecting effects of ultrasound guided high intensity focused
ultrasound (USgHIFU) in the treatment of single uterine fibroids (UFs) with different magnetic …

Comprehensive feature selection for classifying the treatment outcome of high-intensity ultrasound therapy in uterine fibroids

V Suomi, G Komar, T Sainio, K Joronen… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
… for high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) treatment outcome classification in uterine fibroids.
… patient data from 66 HIFU treatments with 89 uterine fibroids. A total of 39 features were …

Clinical and technical aspects of MR-guided high intensity focused ultrasound for treatment of symptomatic uterine fibroids

LE Rueff, SS Raman - Seminars in interventional radiology, 2013 - thieme-connect.com
… symptomatic uterine fibroids. Magnetic resonance imaging-guided high intensity focused …
option for women with symptomatic uterine fibroids unresponsive to medical treatment. The …

Clinical application of high-intensity focused ultrasound ablation for uterine fibroids

Y Kim - Biomedical Engineering Letters, 2017 - Springer
… the myometrial signal intensity is often … intensity ratio of uterine fibroids relative to the
skeletal muscle [23, 24]. Regardless of the methods, uterine fibroids with very high signal intensity

Outcome of unintended pregnancy after ultrasound-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound ablation of uterine fibroids

J Qin, JY Chen, WP Zhao, L Hu, WZ Chen… - International Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
Uterine fibroids are the most frequent of all gynecologic diseases… Uterine fibroids are also
important factors for infertility, … of uterine fibroids may increase the risk of uterine rupture after …

Treatment of uterine fibroid tumors in a nude mouse model using high-intensity focused ultrasound

S Vaezy, VY Fujimoto, C Walker, RW Martin… - American journal of …, 2000 - Elsevier
uterine fibroid tumors without the need for surgery. To test the efficacy of HIFU for ablation of
uterine fibroid … tumors developed from an Eker rat uterine fibroid cell line. HIFU was applied …

Effect of high-intensity focused ultrasound on sexual function in the treatment of uterine fibroids: comparison to conventional myomectomy

X Wang, J Qin, L Wang, J Chen, W Chen… - Archives of gynecology …, 2013 - Springer
Uterine fibroids are the most common benign tumors in women. As a new minimally … ,
high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) has been widely applied to the treatment of uterine fibroids

A retrospective comparison of microwave ablation and high intensity focused ultrasound for treating symptomatic uterine fibroids

WP Zhao, ZY Han, J Zhang, P Liang - European journal of radiology, 2015 - Elsevier
… Seventy-three women with symptomatic uterine fibroids who met the inclusion criteria were
… forty uterine fibroids underwent PMWA, and forty-two patients with fifty-one uterine fibroids