Transcranial MRI-guided focused ultrasound surgery of brain tumors: Initial findings in patients
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Introduction: Previously, an MRI-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) system was described that aims to use transcranial ultrasound exposures to noninvasively thermally ablate targets in the brain (1-3). This system uses acoustic models, geometric and density information derived from CT scans, and a phased array transducer to correct for skull-induced aberrations of the ultrasound beam (4). Here we present initial technical results of this device from patient treatments.
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