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HIFU beams are precisely focused on a small region of diseased tissue to locally deposit high levels of energy. Focused ultrasound may be used to generate highly localized heating to treat cysts and tumors (benign or malignant). This is known as Magnetic Resonance guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS) or High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU).
The focused ultrasound waves generate high temperatures within smaller areas. The temperature when maintained for sufficient a period of time results in the ablation of the fibroids. The therapy procedure is guided by Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) with real time feedback, which helps in the focused ablation of the target location. [3]
Ultrasound can ablate tumors or other tissue non-invasively. [4] This is accomplished using a technique known as high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), also called focused ultrasound surgery. This procedure uses generally lower frequencies than medical diagnostic ultrasound (250–2000 kHz), but significantly higher time-averaged intensities.
Medical ultrasound includes diagnostic techniques (mainly imaging techniques) using ultrasound, as well as therapeutic applications of ultrasound. In diagnosis, it is used to create an image of internal body structures such as tendons, muscles, joints, blood vessels, and internal organs, to measure some characteristics (e.g., distances and velocities) or to generate an informative audible sound.
1.3 High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) 1.4 Embolisation therapies. ... freeing up hospital beds and reducing costs. [33] Further considerations
Haifu is a medical device manufacturer, producing High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) equipment. The HIFU machines produced are CE certified. [ 3 ] The company sells in foreign markets and was noted in a China Daily article as an example of Chinese businesses manufacturing goods of higher sophistication for the international market.
The importance of the schlieren imaging technique is prominent in High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) research and development. [5] Advantages of schlieren imaging include: Free field: the investigated acoustic field is not distorted by the measuring probe. High intensity measurements: the method is compatible with high acoustic intensities.
Focused-ultrasound-mediated diagnostics or FUS-mediated diagnostics are an area of clinical diagnostic tools that use ultrasound to detect diseases and cancers. Although ultrasound has been used for imaging in various settings, focused-ultrasound refers to the detection of specific cells and biomarkers under flow combining ultrasound with lasers, microbubbles, and imaging techniques.