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WE‐H‐209‐00: Carson/Zagzebski Distinguished Lectureship: Image Guided Ultrasound Therapy
Author(s) -
Wilson Thaddeus
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.473
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 2473-4209
pISSN - 0094-2405
DOI - 10.1118/1.4958019
Subject(s) - medical physics , presentation (obstetrics) , medicine , ultrasound energy , ultrasound , brain research , radiology , neuroscience , psychology
Focused ultrasound has been shown to be the only method that allows noninvasive thermal coagulation of tissues and recently this potential has been explored for image‐guided drug delivery. In this presentation, the advances in ultrasound phased array technology for energy delivery, exposure monitoring and control will be discussed. Experimental results from novel multi‐frequency transmit/receive arrays will be presented. In addition, the feasibility of fully electronically focused and steered high power arrays with many thousands of transducer elements will be discussed. Finally, some of the recent clinical and preclinical results for the treatment of brain disease will be reviewed. Learning Objectives: 1. Introduce FUS therapy principles and modern techniques 2. Discuss use of FUS for drug delivery 3. Cover the technology required to deliver FUS and monitor therapy 4. Present clinical examples of the uses of these techniquesThis research was supported by funding from The Canada Research Chair Program, Grants from CIHR and NIH (no. EB003268).; K. Hynynen, Canada Foundation for Innovation; Canadian Institutes of Health Research; Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation; Canada Research Chair Program; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; Ontario Research Fund; National Institutes of Health; Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute; The Weston Brain Institute; Harmonic Medical; Focused Ultrasound Instruments