The road to clinical use of high-intensity focused ultrasound for liver cancer: Technical and clinical consensus

Journal of Therapeutic Ultrasound

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Aubry, Jean Francois ^a,b   Pauly, Kim Butts ^c   Moonen, Chrit ^d   Haar, Gailter ^e   Ries, Mario ^d   Salomir, Rares ^f   Sokka, Sham ^g   Sekins, Kevin Michael ^h   Shapira, Yerucham ⁱ   Ye, Fangwei ^j   Huff Simonin, Heather ^k   Eames, Matt ^k   Hananel, Arik ^k   Kassell, Neal ^k   Napoli, Alessandro ^l   Hwang, Joo Ha ^m   Wu, Feng ⁿ   Zhang, Lian ⁿ   Melzer, Andreas ^o   Kim, Young sun ^p   Gedroyc, Wladyslaw M ^q,r   more..

^a INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^e INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^g PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^h Siemens Healthcare   (United States)

ⁱ INSIGHTEC LTD   (Israel)

^j Chongqing Haifu Technology Co Ltd   (China)

^k Focused Ultrasound Foundation   (United States)

^l SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^m UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

ⁿ CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^o UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^p Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^q IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^r ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

Focused ultrasound; High intensity ultrasound; Liver cancer; Non invasive surgery; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BREATHING MECHANICS; BURN; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COLORECTAL CANCER; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND DEVICE; HUMAN; LIVER CANCER; LIVER METASTASIS; MONITORING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIB; RISK ASSESSMENT; TUMOR ABLATION;

EID: 85013814494     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20505736     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2050-5736-1-13     Document Type: Review

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