The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved the first focused ultrasound device to treat essential tremor in patients who have not responded to medication.
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For the first time, researchers have reversed some of the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease in mice using magnetic resonance (MR) imaging-guided focused ultrasound.
News | Focused Ultrasound Therapy | September 18, 2017
September 18, 2017 — Theraclion and co-lead investigator David Brenin, M.D., from the University of Virginia School...
News | Focused Ultrasound Therapy | August 22, 2017
August 22, 2017 — Insightec announced recently that worldwide adoption of magnetic resonance (MR)-guided...
News | Focused Ultrasound Therapy | August 07, 2017
August 7, 2017 — Profound Medical Corp. recently announced that all closing conditions have been satisfied and it...
News | Focused Ultrasound Therapy | May 04, 2017
May 4, 2017 — Theraclion recently announced the presentation of data from the U.S. feasibility trial of echotherapy...
News | Focused Ultrasound Therapy | April 21, 2017
April 21, 2017 — A multidisciplinary clinical team at Nicklaus Children's Hospital used magnetic-resonance guided...
News | Focused Ultrasound Therapy | April 12, 2017
April 12, 2017 — Theraclion announced results of a study evaluating the long-term assessment of...
News | Focused Ultrasound Therapy | March 29, 2017
March 29, 2017 — EDAP TMS SA announced the publication of a peer-reviewed article that analyzed Ablatherm Robotic...
Brain FUS uses an array of about 1,000 elements designed to overcome attenuation issues presented by the skull and to diffuse the heating over a large area of the brain to prevent damaging healthly tissue.
Feature | Radiation Oncology | March 02, 2017 | By Dave Fornell
Focused ultrasound (FUS), also called high-...
The InSightec ExAblate focused ultrasound system developed to treat essential tremor. Studies are underway to see if FUS can be used to treat other brain conditions and brain cancer.
Feature | Focused Ultrasound Therapy | February 03, 2017 | Dave Fornell
Focused ultrasound (FUS), also called...
News | Focused Ultrasound Therapy | January 17, 2017
Insightec, a leader in MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) therapy, announced today that the Japanese Ministry of...
News | Focused Ultrasound Therapy | December 22, 2016
Insightec Ltd. announced that the Exablate Prostate system received CE Mark for treating locally-confined prostate...
News | Focused Ultrasound Therapy | August 26, 2016
August 26, 2016 — Treatment with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided...
Image courtesy of InSightec
Technology | Focused Ultrasound Therapy | July 11, 2016
July 11, 2016 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved the first...
News | Focused Ultrasound Therapy | April 05, 2016
April 5, 2016 — The Focused...
News | Focused Ultrasound Therapy | February 01, 2016
February 1, 2016 — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has established a new Electrical...
News | Focused Ultrasound Therapy | January 27, 2016
January 27, 2016 — Bestselling author John Grisham has written "The Tumor," a fictional account of how a real...
News | Prostate Cancer | December 31, 2015
Patients with prostate cancer are now being treated with minimally invasive, high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU...
News | Focused Ultrasound Therapy | September 01, 2015
September 1, 2015 — University of Maryland Medicine and its Center for Metabolic Imaging and Image-Guided...
TULSA-PRO image courtesy of Profound Medical
News | Prostate Cancer | August 07, 2015
August 7, 2015 — Philips and Profound Medical Corp., a Toronto-based medical device company, announced a joint...
News | June 03, 2015
June 3, 2015 - Doctors from the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation at Children's National...
