Can ultrasound contrast agents increase the treatment envelope?
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Background/introduction Currently, thermal ablation via transcranial MRI-guided focused ultrasound is restricted to centrally-located regions in the brain. This limitation is the result of skull heating when the focal region is steered to more peripheral regions in the brain, along with other factors such as limitations in beam steering in the currently-available clinical brain focused ultrasound systems. The treatment envelope could be expanded if the time averaged acoustic power needed for ablation could be reduced.
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دوره 3 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2015