Sentences with phrase «using focused ultrasound»
McDannold and his colleagues have been working for years on using focused ultrasound and microbubbles to disrupt the blood - brain barrier and deliver drugs to the brain.
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«We hope to use focused ultrasound to non-invasively destroy tumors and to disrupt tumor cell membranes and stimulate a dog's own immune system to fight the cancer,» said the study's director, assistant professor Jeffrey Ruth, DVM, MS, DABVP, DACVR.
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• INSIGHTEC, an Israeli medical device company specializing in non-invasive treatment of brain conditions using MR - guided focused ultrasound, raised $ 150 million in Series E funding.
Ultrasound uses the size of the focus to determine the gestational age (the time elapsed since the first day of the last menstrual period).
Jeff Elias, MD, of the University of Virginia Health System, pioneered the use of focused ultrasound for essential tremor, the most common movement disorder, and is now testing it for Parkinson's tremor.
High intensity, focused ultrasound can damage tissue by heating and cavitation, and has been used to ablate tumors and other lesions.
MRI - guided, focused ultrasound surgery, a fibroid - specific therapy that uses ultrasound thermal ablation to treat fibroids with no incisions and no hospital stay.
The notion of using high - intensity focused ultrasound waves in cancer surgery sounds interesting (4 January, p 38).
They will see more efficient use of comprehensive, consultative ultrasound as well - guided by focused sonography and not limited by physical examination alone.
• Non-invasive procedure approved by the FDA uses high - intensity, focused ultrasound energy to destroy or melt targeted fat without harming surrounding skin.
The team is working now to miniaturize the device further, find more biocompatible materials and improve the surface transceiver that sends and receives the ultrasounds, ideally using beam - steering technology to focus the sounds waves on individual motes.
The procedure, known as MRI - guided HIFU, uses magnetic - resonance imaging to focus heat - generating, high - intensity ultrasound onto these growths.
Disintegration of Tissue Using High Intensity Focused Ultrasound: Two Approaches that Utilize Shock Waves — Adam Maxwell, Oleg Sapozhnikov, Michael Bailey, Lawrence Crum, Zhen Xu, Brian Fowlkes, Charles Cain, and Vera Khokhlova
Ultrasound is used for penetrating deeply into the tissue and can be focused on a tiny tumor area for activating a sonosensitizer, allowing for the non-invasive eradication of tumors.
About Blog Dr. Michael Lazar, a Santa Rosa urologist and prostate cancer specialist, is the only Northern California physician recognized as a leader in the use of high - intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) for prostate cancer.
About Blog Dr. Michael Lazar, a Santa Rosa urologist and prostate cancer specialist, is the only Northern California physician recognized as a leader in the use of high - intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) for prostate cancer.
The foundation since 2006 has researched the use of focused ultrasound in human medicine.
The Focused Ultrasound Foundation will expand into animal health in 2018 when the Virginia - Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine studies the use of high - intensity ultrasound to treat naturally occurring sarcomas and mast cell tumorUltrasound Foundation will expand into animal health in 2018 when the Virginia - Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine studies the use of high - intensity ultrasound to treat naturally occurring sarcomas and mast cell tumorultrasound to treat naturally occurring sarcomas and mast cell tumors in dogs.
The Cat Practice uses the most modern equipment including ultrasound and endoscopy; but we currently have always been holistically focused.
About Blog Dr. Michael Lazar, a Santa Rosa urologist and prostate cancer specialist, is the only Northern California physician recognized as a leader in the use of high - intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) for prostate cancer.