[HTML][HTML] Tissue mimicking materials for imaging and therapy phantoms: a review

CK McGarry, LJ Grattan, AM Ivory, F Leek… - Physics in Medicine …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Tissue mimicking materials (TMMs), typically contained within phantoms, have been used
for many decades in both imaging and therapeutic applications. This review investigates the …

A review on B/A measurement methods with a clinical perspective

A Panfilova, RJG van Sloun, H Wijkstra… - The Journal of the …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The nonlinear parameter of ultrasound B/A has shown to be a useful diagnostic parameter,
reflecting medium content, structure, and temperature. Despite its recognized values, B/A is …

[HTML][HTML] Acoustic characterization of tissue-mimicking materials for ultrasound perfusion imaging research

P Chen, AMAO Pollet, A Panfilova, M Zhou… - Ultrasound in Medicine …, 2022 - Elsevier
Materials with well-characterized acoustic properties are of great interest for the
development of tissue-mimicking phantoms with designed (micro) vasculature networks …

Assessment of gold nanoparticle-mediated-enhanced hyperthermia using MR-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound ablation procedure

SB Devarakonda, MR Myers, M Lanier, C Dumoulin… - Nano …, 2017 - ACS Publications
High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) has gained increasing popularity as a noninvasive
therapeutic procedure to treat solid tumors. However, collateral damage due to the use of …

Quality assurance guidelines for superficial hyperthermia clinical trials

H Dobšíček Trefná, J Crezee, M Schmidt… - Strahlentherapie und …, 2017 - escholarship.org
Quality assurance (QA) guidelines are essential to provide uniform execution of clinical trials
with uniform quality hyperthermia treatments. This document outlines the requirements for …

An X-ray C-arm guided automatic targeting system for histotripsy

MG Wagner, S Periyasamy, AZ Kutlu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Histotripsy is an emerging noninvasive, nonionizing and nonthermal focal cancer
therapy that is highly precise and can create a treatment zone of virtually any size and …

[HTML][HTML] Quality assurance guidelines for superficial hyperthermia clinical trials: II. Technical requirements for heating devices

HD Trefná, J Crezee, M Schmidt, D Marder… - Strahlentherapie und …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Quality assurance (QA) guidelines are essential to provide uniform execution of clinical trials
with uniform quality hyperthermia treatments. This document outlines the requirements for …

Polyvinyl chloride as a multimodal tissue‐mimicking material with tuned mechanical and medical imaging properties

W Li, B Belmont, JM Greve, AB Manders… - Medical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The mechanical and imaging properties of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) can be
adjusted to meet the needs of researchers as a tissue‐mimicking material. For instance, the …

[HTML][HTML] Trans-cranial opening of the blood-brain barrier in targeted regions using astereotaxic brain atlas and focused ultrasound energy

C Bing, M Ladouceur-Wodzak, CR Wanner… - Journal of therapeutic …, 2014 - Springer
Objective The blood-brain barrier (BBB) protects the brain by preventing the entry of
largemolecules; this poses a major obstacle for the delivery of drugs to the brain. Anovel …

AAPM Task Group 241: A medical physicist's guide to MRI‐guided focused ultrasound body systems

A Payne, R Chopra, N Ellens, L Chen… - Medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetic resonance‐guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) is a completely non‐invasive
technology that has been approved by FDA to treat several diseases. This report, prepared …