ExAblate®magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound system in multiple body applications
| Autor: | W M W Gedroyc, Elizabeth Dick |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Treatment response medicine.diagnostic_test ExAblate Uterine fibroids business.industry Ultrasonic Therapy Temperature Biomedical Engineering Magnetic resonance imaging General Medicine medicine.disease Magnetic Resonance Imaging Focused ultrasound Sonication Safety profile medicine.anatomical_structure Prostate medicine Humans Effective treatment Surgery Radiology business |
| Zdroj: | Expert Review of Medical Devices. 7:589-597 |
| ISSN: | 1745-2422 1743-4440 |
| DOI: | 10.1586/erd.10.38 |
| Popis: | Focused ultrasound surgery (FUS) is a completely noninvasive method of thermally destroying a target tissue while sparing adjacent tissues and organs. Treatment is relatively painless and can be carried out under conscious sedation on an out-patient basis. The combination of magnetic resonance guidance with FUS (MRgFUS) provides the ability to plan and monitor treatments in near real-time, further increasing the safety profile of MRgFUS. This technology provides a very personalized treatment, adjusted to the individual patient anatomy, pathology and treatment response, hence it meets the needs of patients, as well as of physicians. MRgFUS has been used extensively in the successful treatment of uterine fibroids, and has been shown to be an effective treatment in the breast and in bone metastases in smaller scale studies. It shows great potential in the treatment of prostate and liver tumors, as well as in the brain and facet joints. |
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