High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Therapy

Introduction.- Characterization of high intensity acoustic fields generated by therapeutic transducers.- Acoustic and thermal properties of tissue.- Ultrasound propagation in soft tissue and effects of bones.- Thermal effects of therapeutic ultrasound and corresponding applications.- Cavitation and corresponding applications.- Nonlinear ultrasound waves with shocks and corresponding applications.- Acoustic radiation force and corresponding applications.- Ultrasound and immunology.- Therapeutic ultrasound contrast agents and nanoparticles.- Therapeutic ultrasound transducers and their parameters.- Current devices and applications.- US-based imaging of ultrasound therapies.- MR-based imaging of ultrasound therapies.- Histological and biochemical analysis in therapeutic ultrasound research.- Metrology and dosimetry standards related to therapeutic ultrasound.- Clinical challenges - abdominal applications.- Clinical challenges - brain applications.