MR‐guided focused ultrasound surgery, present and future

D Schlesinger, S Benedict, C Diederich… - Medical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
MR‐guided focused ultrasound surgery (MRgFUS) is a quickly developing technology with
potential applications across a spectrum of indications traditionally within the domain of …

The road to clinical use of high-intensity focused ultrasound for liver cancer: technical and clinical consensus

JF Aubry, KB Pauly, C Moonen, G Haar, M Ries… - Journal of therapeutic …, 2013 - Springer
Clinical use of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) under ultrasound or MR guidance
as a non-invasive method for treating tumors is rapidly increasing. Tens of thousands of …

Image-driven, model-based 3D abdominal motion estimation for MR-guided radiotherapy

B Stemkens, RHN Tijssen… - Physics in Medicine …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Respiratory motion introduces substantial uncertainties in abdominal radiotherapy for which
traditionally large margins are used. The MR-Linac will open up the opportunity to acquire …

Image-guided non-invasive ultrasound liver ablation using histotripsy: feasibility study in an in vivo porcine model

E Vlaisavljevich, Y Kim, S Allen, G Owens… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2013 - Elsevier
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), or liver cancer, is one of the fastest growing cancers in the
United States. Current liver ablation methods are thermal based and share limitations …

An improved optical flow tracking technique for real-time MR-guided beam therapies in moving organs

C Zachiu, N Papadakis, M Ries… - Physics in Medicine …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetic resonance (MR) guided high intensity focused ultrasound and external beam
radiotherapy interventions, which we shall refer to as beam therapies/interventions, are …

Three-dimensional MRI-linac intra-fraction guidance using multiple orthogonal cine-MRI planes

T Bjerre, S Crijns, PM af Rosenschöld… - Physics in Medicine …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
The introduction of integrated MRI-radiation therapy systems will offer live intra-fraction
imaging. We propose a feasible low-latency multi-plane MRI-linac guidance strategy. In this …

Modular robotic platform for precision neurosurgery with a bio-inspired needle: System overview and first in-vivo deployment

R Secoli, E Matheson, M Pinzi, S Galvan, A Donder… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Over the past 10 years, minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has shown significant benefits
compared to conventional surgical techniques, with reduced trauma, shorter hospital stays …

Proof of concept of MRI-guided tracked radiation delivery: tracking one-dimensional motion

SPM Crijns, BW Raaymakers… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
In radiotherapy one aims to deliver a radiation dose to a tumour with high geometrical
accuracy while sparing organs at risk (OARs). Although image guidance decreases …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic review of the role of high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) in treating malignant lesions of the hepatobiliary system

AS Sehmbi, S Froghi, MO de Andrade, N Saffari… - HPB, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Background High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) is an emerging non-
invasive, targeted treatment of malignancy. The aim of this review was to assess the efficacy …

[HTML][HTML] Towards fast and accurate temperature mapping with proton resonance frequency-based MR thermometry

J Yuan, CS Mei, LP Panych… - … imaging in medicine …, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The capability to image temperature is a very attractive feature of MRI and has been actively
exploited for guiding minimally-invasive thermal therapies. Among many MR-based …