ter Haar, G. (2016) HIFU Tissue Ablation: Concept and Devices. In: Therapeutic Ultrasound. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 880 . Springer Int Publishing Ag, Cham, pp. 3-20. ISBN 0065-2598978-3-319-22536-4; 978-3-319-22535-7

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Abstract

High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is rapidly gaining clinical acceptance as a technique capable of providing non-invasive heating and ablation for a wide range of applications. Usually requiring only a single session, treatments are often conducted as day case procedures, with the patient either fully conscious, lightly sedated or under light general anesthesia. HIFU scores over other thermal ablation techniques because of the lack of necessity for the transcutaneous insertion of probes into the target tissue. Sources placed either outside the body (for treatment of tumors or abnormalities of the liver, kidney, breast, uterus, pancreas brain and bone), or in the rectum (for treatment of the prostate), provide rapid heating of a target tissue volume, the highly focused nature of the field leaving tissue in the ultrasound propagation path relatively unaffected. Numerous extra-corporeal, transrectal and interstitial devices have been designed to optimize application-specific treatment delivery for the wide-ranging areas of application that are now being explored with HIFU. Their principle of operation is described here, and an overview of their design principles is given.

Item Type:	Book Section
Authors (ICR Faculty only):	Ter Haar, Gail
All Authors:	ter Haar, G.
Editors:	Escoffre, J. M., Bouakaz, A.
Additional Information:	ISI Document Delivery No.: BE2JZ Times Cited: 0 Cited Reference Count: 116 ter Haar, Gail Article; Book Chapter GEWERBESTRASSE 11, CHAM, CH-6330, SWITZERLAND
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Ultrasound therapy Thermal ablation Cancer Heating High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) Ultrasound transducers INTENSITY-FOCUSED ULTRASOUND 2-DIMENSIONAL PHASED-ARRAYS BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA THERAPEUTIC ULTRASOUND UTERINE FIBROIDS IN-VIVO FUTURE APPLICATIONS NONINVASIVE METHOD THERMAL ABLATION EARLY EXPERIENCE
Research teams:	ICR divisions > Radiotherapy and Imaging > Therapeutic Ultrasound
Depositing User:	Barry Jenkins
Date Deposited:	18 Mar 2016 15:14
Last Modified:	18 Mar 2016 15:14
URI:	http://publications.icr.ac.uk/id/eprint/14808

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