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 | 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...
Feature | March 27, 2015
March 27, 2015 — A pre-clinical study published this week in Science Translational Medicine suggests that...
The image on the left shows the plaque abnormalities on untreated transgenic mice and the image on the right shows the brain of a transgenic mouse that has been treated with MR imaging-guided focused ultrasound. Image courtesy of Kullervo Hynynen, Sunnybrook Research Institute.
Feature | February 13, 2015
February 13, 2015 — For the first time, researchers have reversed some of the symptoms of...
Feature | February 11, 2015
February 11, 2015 — A pioneering clinical trial is testing whether focusing high-frequency sound waves onto the...
