Mechanical damage thresholds for hematomas near gas-containing bodies in pulsed HIFU fields

EM Ponomarchuk, C Hunter, M Song… - Physics in Medicine …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Boiling histotripsy (BH) is a novel high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU)
application currently being developed for non-invasive mechanical fractionation of soft …

The effects of the size of a boiling bubble on lesion production in boiling histotripsy

KJ Pahk, MO De Andrade, H Kim… - Journal of Physics …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Boiling histotripsy employs a number of millisecond-long High Intensity Focused Ultrasound
(HIFU) pulses with high acoustic peak pressures at the HIFU focus to mechanically …

Dependence of boiling histotripsy treatment efficiency on HIFU frequency and focal pressure levels

TD Khokhlova, YA Haider, AD Maxwell… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2017 - Elsevier
Boiling histotripsy (BH) is a high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU)–based method of
mechanical tissue fractionation that utilizes millisecond-long bursts of HIFU shock waves to …

[HTML][HTML] Control of the dynamics of a boiling vapour bubble using pressure-modulated high intensity focused ultrasound without the shock scattering effect: A first proof …

KJ Pahk - Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Boiling histotripsy is a promising High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) technique that
can be used to induce mechanical tissue fractionation at the HIFU focus via cavitation. Two …

Evidence of the formation of the shock scattering induced violent cavitation cluster during boiling histotripsy insonation: A numerical case study

KJ Pahk - Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Boiling histotripsy is a promising noninvasive ultrasonic technique that can be used to
mechanically destroy solid tumours. In boiling histotripsy, the formations and dynamics of a …

Ultrasonic atomization of tissue and its role in tissue fractionation by high intensity focused ultrasound

JC Simon, OA Sapozhnikov… - Physics in Medicine …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Atomization and fountain formation is a well-known phenomenon that occurs when a
focused ultrasound wave in liquid encounters an air interface. High intensity focused …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanical damage induced by the appearance of rectified bubble growth in a viscoelastic medium during boiling histotripsy exposure

KJ Pahk, MO de Andrade, P Gélat, H Kim… - Ultrasonics …, 2019 - Elsevier
In boiling histotripsy, the presence of a boiling vapour bubble and understanding of its
dynamic behaviour are crucially important for the initiation of the tissue fractionation process …

Pulsatile flow phantom for ultrasound image-guided HIFU treatment of vascular injuries

R Greaby, V Zderic, S Vaezy - Ultrasound in medicine & biology, 2007 - Elsevier
A pulsatile flow phantom was developed for studies of ultrasound image-guided high
intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) application in transcutaneous hemostasis of injured …

High-intensity-focused-ultrasound (HIFU) induced homeostasis and tissue ablation

S Chauhan, MS Michel, P Alken… - … Treatment of Tissue …, 2003 - spiedigitallibrary.org
At high intensity levels, ultrasound energy focused into remote tissue targets in human body
has shown to produce thermal necrosis in circumscribed regions with sub-millimeter …

Selection of exposure parameters for a HIFU ablation system using an array of thermocouples and numerical simulations

F Łukasz, T Kujawska - Archives of Acoustics, 2019 - acoustics.ippt.gov.pl
Image-guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) technique is dynamically
developing technology for treating solid tumors due to its non-invasive nature. Before a HIFU …