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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"MRgFUS"”.
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Computer Simulations for Applications of Magnetic Resonance Guided Focused Ultrasound Surgery (MRgFUS) of Uterine Fibroids
… resonance guided focused ultrasound surgery (MRgFUS), a noninvasive modality utilizing ultrasound energy to perform thermal ablation, has been used clinically as an alternative to hysterectomy to treat UFs since receiving clinical approval in North America and Europe nearly two decades ago. …
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Verification of the <i>Ex Vivo</i> Thiel Embalmed Model for Liver Treatment with Magnetic Resonance-guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS) before Clinical Practice
… Magnetic Resonance-guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS) is a promising treatment option due to its non-invasive nature and due to the ability to perform MR Thermometry. Thermometry can provide real-time temperature feedback and temperature maps indicating the ablated area. Despite considerable …
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Targeted Drug Delivery with Cyclodextrin-based Nanocarriers and Focused Ultrasound Triggering
… resonance imaging guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) to cavitate microbubbles (MBs) for increasing cell permeability and to open ‘drug nano-capsules’ to release proven active anticancer drugs directly to the tumour site with reduction of systemic drug dosage needed for the desired therapeutic …
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Enhanced Delivery of Gold Nanoparticles with Therapeutic Potential for Targeting Human Brain Tumors
… imaging (MRI) guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) disruption of the BBB in enhancing permeation of AuNPs across the intact BBB and tumor BBB in vivo. MRgFUS is a novel technique that can transiently increase BBB permeability thereby allowing delivery of therapeutics into the CNS. We …
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Ultrasound mediated Targeted Drug Delivery In Vitro: design, evaluation and application
… clinical MRI-guided Focused Ultrasound Surgery (MRgFUS) system. As there was no properly controllable research environment for in-vitro studies available prior to the investigation of the carriers, such an environment was built and characterized. <br/>Methods MCF7 and A375m human cancer cell …
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Real time motion tracking in image guided focused ultrasound intervention
… MRI guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS), a moving target with similar graphical features of tumours in human liver was tracked via analysing MRI scans. Then letting the ultrasound beam lock onto a moving target was realized via beam-steering by a phased-array HIFU …
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Development of MRI-compatible Transducer Array for Focused Ultrasound Surgery: : The Use of Relaxor-based Piezocrystals
Focused ultrasound surgery (FUS) is considered as a promising approach for treating cancer and other conditions and is gaining increasing interest. However, the limited availability of experimental ultrasound array sources and multichannel electronics able to drive them hinder the research into FUS …