Therapeutic ultrasound (original) (raw)

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Abstract

Although diagnostic ultrasound is now a multibillion dollar a year industry, the therapeutic applications of ultrasound were initially thought to have more promise. Indeed, the Fry brothers were performing brain surgery on human patients in the early 1950s, and with considerable success. However, therapeutic ultrasound has still not yet gained its promising potential. Recently, there has been an enormous resurgence of interest in this topic, and several major projects are underway at various facilities around the world. Our own substantial efforts in this area at the University of Washington are reviewed, with brief discussions of topics in lithotripsy, ultrasound‐enhanced drug delivery, HIFU surgery, and acoustic hemostasis. [Work supported in part by DARPA and the NIH under Grants DK‐43881 and R43HL57739.]

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