Focused Ultrasound Therapy

Focused Ultrasound therapy is a type of radiation therapy that focuses multiple sources of ultrasound energy to target a specific area.

Registration Now Open for RSNA21
July 21, 2021 — Registration is now open for the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) …
FDA Approves First MRI-guided Focused Ultrasound Device to Treat Essential Tremor
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.
MR-Guided Focused Ultrasound Reverses Alzheimer’s Symptoms in Mice
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.

Contrast media is used to improve diagnostic imaging, and the shortage has affected millions of examinations.

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Tampa General Hospital and USF Health First in Tampa Bay with New Innovative Ultrasound

July 5, 2022 — Focused Ultrasound, an innovative, new procedure being used by USF Health Morsani College of Medicine ...

July 05, 2022

Craig Rogers, M.D., performed a robotic high intensity ultrasound case for Charles Rashid, 64, on April 8, 2022. Image courtesy of Henry Ford Health

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Henry Ford Health First in Michigan to Offer Robotic High-intensity Focused Ultrasound for Prostate Cancer

May 12, 2022 — Henry Ford Health is the first in Michigan to offer Robotic High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) for ...

May 12, 2022

Richard Price, PhD, is a co-director of the new center. He is part of UVA's Department of Biomedical Engineering, a collaboration of the School of Medicine and the School of Engineering. Image courtesy of Tom Cogill for UVA Engineering

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UVA Health, Focused Ultrasound Foundation partner to Launch Focused Ultrasound Cancer Immunotherapy Center

May 12, 2022 — UVA Health and the Charlottesville-based Focused Ultrasound Foundation today announced the launch of the ...

May 12, 2022

While doctors have used low-intensity ultrasound as a medical imaging tool since the 1950s, experts at the University of Waterloo are using and extending models that help capture how high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) can work on a cellular level.

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Researchers Developing New Cancer Treatments with High-intensity Focused Ultrasound

August 24, 2021 — Researchers are bringing the use of acoustic waves to target and destroy cancerous tumors closer to ...

August 24, 2021

Registration is now open for the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 107th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, the world’s largest annual radiology forum, to be held at McCormick Place Chicago, Nov. 28 – Dec. 2, 2021

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Registration Now Open for RSNA21

July 21, 2021 — Registration is now open for the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 107th Scientific Assembly ...

July 21, 2021

In a mouse model study of MRI-guided focused ultrasound-induced blood-brain barrier (BBB) opening at MRI field strengths ranging from approximately 0 T (outside the magnetic field) to 4.7 T, the static magnetic field dampened the detected microbubble cavitation signal and decreased the BBB opening volum

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Magnetic Field from MRI Affects Focused-ultrasound-mediated Blood-brain Barrier

July 13, 2021 — MRI-guided focused ultrasound combined with microbubbles can open the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and ...

July 13, 2021

The study investigates targeted drug delivery by focused ultrasound for pancreatic cancer

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University of Oxford Announces Opening of PanDox Phase 1 Study

July 1, 2021 — The University of Oxford announced commencement of enrollment for the Phase I PanDox study of ...

July 01, 2021

WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute staff prepare a patient for a first-in-the-world clinical trial to investigate the use of focused ultrasound technology to treat opioid use disorder. (WVU Photo/Brian Persinger)

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West Virginia University Addresses Addiction Crisis with Novel Ultrasound Treatment

March 17, 2021 — On the heels of the country’s deadliest year for drug overdoses, the West Virginia University ...

March 17, 2021

A new study by Rashi Mehta--a researcher with the WVU School of Medicine and Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute--finds that focused ultrasound may induce an immunological healing effect in the brains of Alzheimer's patients.

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New Radiology Research Shows Promising Results for Focused Ultrasound Treatment of Alzheimer's

March 2, 2021 — West Virginia University scientists used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans to show what happens ...

March 02, 2021

Insightec plans to expand in Latin America through a partnership with Strattner

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MR-Guided Focused Ultrasound To Treat Essential Tremor And Tremor-Dominant Parkinson's Disease

February 16, 2021 — Insightec, a global healthcare company focused on creating the next generation of patient care ...

February 16, 2021

Jeff Elias, MD, is a neurosurgeon at UVA Health and a pioneer in the field of focused ultrasound.

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Focused Ultrasound Shows Promise for Parkinson's Disease

January 8, 2021 — A scalpel-free alternative to brain surgery has the potential to benefit people with Parkinson’s ...

January 08, 2021

Companies to develop compatibility of Philips’ MR Ingenia 3.0T and 1.5T systems with the InSightec Exablate Neuro platform

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Philips and InSightec Partner to Expand Access to MR-guided Focused Ultrasound for Incisionless Neurosurgery

December 18, 2020 — Philips and InSightec, a global healthcare company focused on the therapeutic power of acoustic ...

December 18, 2020

José Obeso, MD, PhD, (left) of of the Centro Integral de Neurociencias (HM CINAC) in Madrid and Nir Lipsman, MD, PhD, (right) of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. Each doctor is leading a clinical trial using focused ultrasound to target the striatum in patients with Parkinson's disease.

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Two Landmark Studies Advance Focused Ultrasound Treatment for Parkinson's Disease

October 30, 2020 — A team of researchers in Madrid, Spain, and another team in Toronto, Canada, are the first in the ...

October 30, 2020

Neurosurgeon Jason Sheehan, M.D., Ph.D., of UVA Health, is pioneering the use of focused ultrasound to treat glioblastoma, the deadliest brain tumor. Image courtesy of UVA Health

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Focused Ultrasound Shows Promise Against Deadliest Brain Tumor

June 23, 2020 — An innovative use of focused ultrasound being pioneered at the University of Virginia School of Medicine ...

June 23, 2020

Richard J. Price, Ph.D., of the University of Virginia's School of Medicine and School of Engineering, is using focused soundwaves to overcome the natural 'blood-brain barrier,' which protects the brain from harmful pathogens. Photo courtesy of Dan Addison | UVA Communications

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Focused Ultrasound Opening Brain to Previously Impossible Treatments

May 7, 2020 — University of Virginia researchers are pioneering the use of focused ultrasound to defy the brain's ...

May 07, 2020

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Insightec's Exablate Neuro Approved With GE Signa Premier MRI in U.S. and Europe

July 10, 2019 — GE Healthcare and Insightec announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval and CE mark for ...

July 10, 2019

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Clinical Trial Explores Opening Blood-Brain Barrier in Fight Against Alzheimer's

May 9, 2019 — A new clinical trial at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and two other sites is testing an ...

May 09, 2019

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Houston Methodist Hospital Acquires Focal One High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound System

March 19, 2019 — EDAP TMS SA announced that Houston Methodist Hospital, one of the first hospitals in the U.S. to offer ...

March 19, 2019

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FDA Approves Exablate Neuro for Tremor-Dominant Parkinson's Treatment

December 21, 2018 — Insightec announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an expansion of ...

December 21, 2018

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FDA Approves Insightec's Exablate Neuro Compatibility With Siemens MRI Scanners

October 1, 2018 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the compatibility of Insightec’s Exablate Neuro ...

October 01, 2018