focused ultrasound

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• Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation — The Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation (FUSF) is a medical foundation based in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, whose adopted mission is to shorten the time from technology development to patient treatment, develop new applications… …   Wikipedia

• High-intensity focused ultrasound — Contents 1 Theory 2 Aiming 3 How HIFU works 4 Method of use …   Wikipedia

• High intensity focused ultrasound — HIFU (high intensity focused ultrasound) (sometimes FUS or HIFUS) is a highly precise medical procedure using high intensity focused ultrasound to heat and destroy pathogenic tissue rapidly. It is one modality of therapeutic ultrasound, and… …   Wikipedia

• Foundation for Focused Ultrasound Research — The Foundation for Focused Ultrasound Research (FFUS) is an American non profit 501(c)(3) charity designed to promote both education and research within the area of medical applications of focused ultrasound (HIFU). History The Foundation was… …   Wikipedia

• high-intensity focused ultrasound — see HIFU, ultrasound …   The new mediacal dictionary

• Ultrasound — Not to be confused with Supersonic .Ultrasound is cyclic sound pressure with a frequency greater than the upper limit of human hearing. Although this limit varies from person to person, it is approximately 20 kilohertz (20,000 hertz) in healthy,… …   Wikipedia

• ultrasound — ultrasonic waves; n. sound waves of high frequency (above 20 kHz), inaudible to the human ear. Ultrasound in the range 2–20 MHz can be used to produce images of the interior of the human body as the waves reflect off structures back to the probe… …   The new mediacal dictionary

• Focused assessment with sonography for trauma — Focused abdominal ultrasound for trauma, commonly abbreviated as FAST and also known as focused assessment with sonography for trauma, is a rapid, bedside, ultrasound examination performed by surgeons and emergency physicians to screen for… …   Wikipedia

• Therapeutic ultrasound — refers generally to any type of procedure that uses ultrasound for therapeutic benefit. This includes HIFU, lithotripsy, targeted ultrasound drug delivery, trans dermal ultrasound drug delivery, ultrasound hemostasis, and ultrasound assisted… …   Wikipedia

• Sound from ultrasound — Contents 1 Parametric array 2 Applications 2.1 Commercial advertising …   Wikipedia

• Emergency ultrasound — is the specialized application of ultrasound by emergency responders, such as paramedics, to guide immediate care and first aid procedures. Like conventional ultrasound, it is a device that produces cyclic sound pressure to penetrate a medium… …   Wikipedia