Focused ultrasound enables selective actuation and Newton-level force output of untethered soft robots

B Hao, X Wang, Y Dong, M Sun, C Xin, H Yang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Untethered miniature soft robots have significant application potentials in biomedical and
industrial fields due to their space accessibility and safe human interaction. However, the …

Histotripsy treatment of murine brain and glioma: temporal profile of magnetic resonance imaging and histological characteristics post-treatment

SW Choi, S Duclos, S Camelo-Piragua… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective Currently, there is a knowledge gap in our understanding of the magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) characteristics of brain tumors treated with histotripsy to evaluate …

Acoustically-stimulated nanobubbles: opportunities in medical ultrasound imaging and therapy

B Helfield, Y Zou, N Matsuura - Frontiers in Physics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Medical ultrasound is one of the most widely used imaging modalities worldwide.
Microbubbles, typically~ 1–8 μm in diameter, are ultrasound contrast agents confined to the …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular insights into the effects of focused ultrasound mechanotherapy on lipid bilayers: Unlocking the keys to design effective treatments

A Blanco-González, SJ Marrink, Á Piñeiro… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Administration of focused ultrasounds (US) represents an attractive complement to classical
therapies for a wide range of maladies, from cancer to neurological pathologies, as they are …

Comparison of high-intensity focused ultrasound and conventional surgery for patients with uterine myomas: a systematic review and meta-analysis

MC Tsai, LT Chang, KW Tam - Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology, 2021 - Elsevier
Objective Uterine myomas are one of the most common gynecologic tumors in
premenopausal women. The conventional surgical treatments are myomectomy and …

Enhancing Targeted Therapy in Breast Cancer by Ultrasound-Responsive Nanocarriers

IA Edwards, F De Carlo, J Sitta, W Varner… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Currently, the response to cancer treatments is highly variable, and severe side effects and
toxicity are experienced by patients receiving high doses of chemotherapy, such as those …

Minimally invasive interventional procedures for metastatic bone disease: a comprehensive review

N Papalexis, A Parmeggiani, G Peta, P Spinnato… - Current …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Metastases are the main type of malignancy involving bone, which is the third most frequent
site of metastatic carcinoma, after lung and liver. Skeletal-related events such as intractable …

Histotripsy ablation for the treatment of feline injection site sarcomas: a first-in-cat in vivo feasibility study

L Ruger, E Yang, S Coutermarsh-Ott… - International Journal …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Feline soft tissue sarcoma (STS) and injection site sarcoma (fISS) are rapidly
growing tumors with low metastatic potential, but locally aggressive behavior. Histotripsy is a …

[HTML][HTML] Modelling transcranial ultrasound neuromodulation: an energy-based multiscale framework

H Chen, C Felix, D Folloni, L Verhagen, J Sallet… - Acta Biomaterialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Several animal and human studies have now established the potential of low intensity, low
frequency transcranial ultrasound (TUS) for non-invasive neuromodulation. Paradoxically …

[HTML][HTML] GPU-accelerated study of the inertial cavitation threshold in viscoelastic soft tissue using a dual-frequency driving signal

T Filonets, M Solovchuk - Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Inertial cavitation thresholds under two forms of ultrasonic excitation (the single-and dual-
frequency ultrasound modes) are studied numerically. The Gilmore–Akulichev model …