High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is a noninvasive way to destroy tissue or stop it from working. It was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for prostate ablation in 2015, but the ...

While doctors have used low-intensity ultrasound as a medical imaging tool since the 1950s, experts are now using and extending models that help capture how high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) ...

High-intensity-focused ultrasound (HIFU) can treat some men with prostate cancer as an alternative to surgery or radiation therapy. The corresponding study was published in The Lancet. "We believe ...

Doctors have used focused ultrasound to destroy tumors in the body without invasive surgery for some time. However, the therapeutic ultrasound used in clinics today indiscriminately damages cancer and ...

Low-intensity transcranial focused ultrasound is a noninvasive, targeted neuromodulation technology. It uses mid- or low-frequency sound waves delivered from arrays applied to the outside of the head ...

MERIDIAN, Idaho — A new, less invasive prostate cancer treatment is now available through the Idaho Urologic Institute. It is called the High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound, or HIFU for short. It uses ...

In recent years, a new treatment strategy known as focal therapy (partial gland ablation) has emerged for prostate cancer considered to be "intermediate risk"—mostly, small tumors confined to one area ...

A molecule called glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) rose significantly in the blood of patients who underwent ...

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