For 50 years, high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) has been a subject of interest for
medical research. HIFU causes selective tissue necrosis in a very well defined volume, at a …

Therapeutic applications of ultrasound predate its use in imaging. A range of biological
effects can be induced by ultrasound, depending on the exposure levels used. At low levels …

Therapeutic ultrasound has been in use for many years. Early applications were those for
which tissue heating was the goal, and so it was used for soft tissue injuries such as may be …

We generally think of bubbles as benign and harmless and yet they can manifest the most
remarkable range of physical effects. Some of those effects are the stuff of our everyday …

Acoustic cavitation has been shown to play a key role in a wide array of novel therapeutic
ultrasound applications. This paper presents a brief discussion of the physics of thermally …

The purpose of this study was to investigate the pathologic changes of extracorporeal
ablation of human malignant tumors with high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU). HIFU …

High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is a technique that was first investigated in the
1940s as a potential method of destroying selective regions within the brain to aid …

The purpose of this study was to explore the sequential imaging and histologic alterations of
tumor blood vessels in the patient with solid malignancies after extracorporeal treatment of …

Previous in vivo studies have demonstrated that microvessel hemorrhages and alterations of
endothelial permeability can be produced in tissues containing microbubble-based …

It is well established that the interaction of ultrasound with soft tissues can induce a wide
range of bioeffects. One of the most important and complex of these interactions in the …