A bioengineer highlights the potential of low-intensity ultrasound for multiple uses, from enhanced drug delivery to the ...

A molecule called glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) rose significantly in the blood of patients who underwent high ... of focused ultrasound as a platform for biomarker discovery for brain ...

Therapeutic or focused ultrasound began being applied to neurologic conditions less than a decade ago, but its potential in a wide spectrum of brain applications is high. In today’s podcast ...

Deep brain stimulation ... is presently used to thermally ablate uterine fibroids by means of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU). 7,8 In the general MRgFUS approach to treating brain ...

It uses high-intensity focused ultrasound energy, guided by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), to heat a small targeted area of tissue in the brain to reduce the tremor. For patients with trigeminal ...

Magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound is a treatment option for patients with essential tremor or tremor-dominant Parkinson's disease who have not benefited from medication or are not willing ...

Hynynen began his research into combining focused ultrasound with an MRI scanner 30 years ago. “At that time, most people were thinking that you cannot use ultrasound to treat anything in the brain ...

Ultrasound scans for pregnant women could cause brain damage in their unborn babies ... The scanners use high-frequency sound waves to give a moving picture of the unborn baby and can detect ...

The global market for MRI-guided and focused ultrasound devices is on the cusp of substantial growth, driven by technological ...