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MR-guided HIFU is an effective treatment for metastatic bone pain through periosteal nerve ablation,[1] and is being investigated for treating back pain through facet joint denervation.[2] For peripheral neuropathy, ultrasound-guided HIFU has been investigated preclinically as a means of achieving either an irreversible conduction block to treat severe spasticity,[3] or a reversible partial conduction block to alleviate chronic pain.[4] However, ultrasound offers limited visualization of deeply situated pelvic nerves [5] and lacks the ability to measure thermal dose, which predicts the extent of changes in peripheral nerve histology and function.[6] Recently developed diffusion-prepared 3D MR neurography imaging techniques with fat suppression and nerve-selective T2-weighting [7] could improve targeting accuracy over ultrasound guidance. We present initial investigations into the use of MRI to guide HIFU ablation of peripheral nerves in a swine model. The objectives were 1) to evaluate the feasibility of identifying peripheral nerves using MR neurography on the clinical MR-HIFU system, 2) to monitor HIFU ablation of peripheral nerves using MR thermometry, and 3) to evaluate the ability to measure thermal lesions in peripheral nerves using contrast-enhanced T1-weighted images and thermal dose maps calculated from MR thermometry.

journal of therapeutic ultrasound

3D MR neurography targeted peripheral nerve ablation with MR-guided high intensity focused ultrasound (MR-HIFU): initial results of a feasibility study in a swine model