Microparticle detection with focused ultrasound

Focused Cardiac Ultrasound for the Detection of a Ventricular Aneurysm

INTRODUCTION Left ventricular aneurysm (LVA) is a rare and dangerous disease process, for which rapid diagnosis can expedite further evaluation and treatment. Here we present the first case of LVA detected by focused cardiac ultrasound in a case of a patient with electrocardiographic findings consistent with a ST elevation myocardial infarction.

Treatment of Movement Disorders With Focused Ultrasound

Although the use of ultrasound as a potential therapeutic modality in the brain has been under study for several decades, relatively few neuroscientists or neurologists are familiar with this technology. Stereotactic brain lesioning had been widely used as a treatment for medically refractory patients with essential tremor (ET), Parkinson disease (PD), and dystonia but has been largely replaced...

MR guided focused ultrasound

The joining of high-intensity focused ultrasound with high-resolution MR guidance has created a system that can produce tissue destruction deep within solid organs without any invasion. Accurate targeting and thermal mapping are provided by MRI and allow very accurate deposition of energy in tissues that can be altered in response to near real-time thermal imaging produced by MR so that the var...

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Focused ultrasound in ophthalmology

The use of focused ultrasound to obtain diagnostically significant information about the eye goes back to the 1950s. This review describes the historical and technological development of ophthalmic ultrasound and its clinical application and impact. Ultrasound, like light, can be focused, which is crucial for formation of high-resolution, diagnostically useful images. Focused, single-element, m...