ArticleMagnetic resonance in medicine2017
Focal point determination in magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound using tracking coils.
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- Magnetic Resonance Acoustic Radiation Force Imaging (MR-ARFI).Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI · 2025Review
- Modulating nociception networks: the impact of low-intensity focused ultrasound on thalamocortical connectivity.Brain communications · 2025Article
- Practical Targeting Errors During Optically Tracked Transcranial Focused Ultrasound Using MR-ARFI and Array- Based Steering.IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering · 2024Article
- Evaluation of acoustic-thermal simulations of in vivo magnetic resonance guided focused ultrasound ablative therapy.International journal of hyperthermia : the official journal of European Society for Hyperthermic Oncology, North American Hyperthermia Group · 2024Article
- A Breast-Specific MR Guided Focused Ultrasound Platform and Treatment Protocol: First-in-Human Technical Evaluation.IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering · 2021Article
- A random phased-array for MR-guided transcranial ultrasound neuromodulation in non-human primates.Physics in medicine and biology · 2018Article
- Agar-based Phantom for Evaluating Targeting of High-intensity Focused Ultrasound Systems for Breast Ablation.Journal of medical physicsArticle
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Abstract
purposeTo develop a method for rapid prediction of the geometric focus location in MR coordinates of a focused ultrasound (US) transducer with arbitrary position and orientation without sonicating.
methodsThree small tracker coil circuits were designed, constructed, attached to the transducer housing of a breast-specific MR-guided focused US (MRgFUS) system with 5 degrees of freedom, and connected to receiver channel inputs of an MRI scanner. A one-dimensional sequence applied in three orthogonal directions determined the position of each tracker, which was then corrected for gradient nonlinearity. In a calibration step, low-level heating located the US focus in one transducer position orientation where the tracker positions were also known. Subsequent US focus locations were determined from the isometric transformation of the trackers. The accuracy of this method was verified by comparing the tracking coil predictions to thermal center of mass calculated using MR thermometry data acquired at 16 different transducer positions for MRgFUS sonications in a homogeneous gelatin phantom.
resultsThe tracker coil predicted focus was an average distance of 2.1 ± 1.1 mm from the thermal center of mass. The one-dimensional locator sequence and prediction calculations took less than 1 s to perform.
conclusionThis technique accurately predicts the geometric focus for a transducer with arbitrary position and orientation without sonicating. Magn Reson Med 77:2424-2430, 2017. © 2016 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
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