high-intensity focused ultrasound therapy

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• 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

• 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

• 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

• HIFU — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda HIFU (a veces FUS or HIFUS) son las siglas de High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (Ultrasonido focalizado de alta intensidad). Consiste en focalizar la energía de un producto sanitario que genera un haz de ultrasonido… …   Wikipedia Español

• Ultrasonido focalizado de alta intensidad — Este artículo o sección sobre medicina y tecnología necesita ser wikificado con un formato acorde a las convenciones de estilo. Por favor, edítalo para que las cumpla. Mientras tanto, no elimines este aviso puesto el 4 de julio de 200 …   Wikipedia Español

• 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

• Prostate cancer — is a disease in which cancer develops in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system. It occurs when cells of the prostate mutate and begin to multiply out of control. These cells may spread (metastasize) from the prostate to other… …   Wikipedia

• Management of prostate cancer — Treatment for prostate cancer may involve active surveillance, surgery, radiation therapy including brachytherapy (prostate brachytherapy) and external beam radiation therapy, High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), chemotherapy, cryosurgery,… …   Wikipedia

• Hochintensiver fokussierter Ultraschall — (englisch high intensity focused ultrasound, HIFU) ist eine medizinische Anwendung von Ultraschall, bei der durch gezielte Bündelung der Schallwellen Gewebe erhitzt und zerstört wird. Dieses therapeutische Verfahren wird auch als… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Medical ultrasonography — This article is about using ultrasound to image the human body. For imaging of animals in research, see Preclinical imaging. Sonography redirects here. For the tactile alphabet called sonography , see Night writing. Medical ultrasonography… …   Wikipedia