Combined Therapy Planning, Real-Time Monitoring, and Low Intensity Focused Ultrasound Treatment Using a Diagnostic Imaging Array.

ABSTRACT: Low intensity focused ultrasound (FUS) therapies use low intensity focused ultrasound waves, typically in combination with microbubbles, to non-invasively induce a variety of therapeutic effects. FUS therapies require pre-therapy planning and real-time monitoring during treatment to ensure the FUS beam is correctly targeted to the desired tissue region. To facilitate more streamlined FUS treatments, we present a system for pre-therapy planning, real-time FUS beam visualization, and low intensity FUS treatment using a single diagnostic imaging array. Therapy planning was accomplished by manually segmenting a B-mode image captured by the imaging array and calculating a sonication pattern for the treatment based on the user-input region of interest. For real-time monitoring, the imaging array

SUBMITTER: Thies M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9199060 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature