Magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound surgery: Part 2: A review of current and future applications

Neurosurgery

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 755-763

  Medel, Ricky ^a   Monteith, Stephen J ^a   Elias, W Jeffrey ^a   Eames, Matthew ^b   Snell, John ^b   Sheehan, Jason P ^a   Wintermark, Max ^a   Jolesz, Ferenc A ^c   Kassell, Neal F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Focused ultrasound; Magnetic resonance imaging; Neurosurgery; Therapy; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ANALGESIA; BACKACHE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN TUMOR ABLATION; CRANIECTOMY; EPILEPSY; FACET RHIZOTOMY; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; IMMUNOMODULATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE GUIDED FOCUSED ULTRASOUND SURGERY; MECHANICAL THROMBECTOMY; MEDLINE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVE FUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NEUROSURGERY; NON INVASIVE SURGICAL DEVICE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSENSITIZATION; REVIEW; RHIZOTOMY; SONOTHROMBOLYSIS; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; TUMOR ABLATION; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN DISEASES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PUBMED; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 84866925362     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e3182672ac9     Document Type: Review

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