ArticleUltrasound in medicine & biology2018
Real-Time Spatiotemporal Control of High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Thermal Ablation Using Echo Decorrelation Imaging in ex Vivo Bovine Liver.
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- Three-dimensional passive acoustic mapping of high intensity focused ultrasound fields using sparse synthetic apertures from rotated one-dimensional linear arrays.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Real-time control of radiofrequency ablation using three-dimensional ultrasound echo decorrelation imaging in normal and diseasedPhysics in medicine and biology · 2025Article
- Three-dimensional echo decorrelation monitoring of radiofrequency ablation in ex vivo bovine liver.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2022Article
- High Precision Monitoring of Radiofrequency Ablation for Liver Using Hyperspectral Imaging.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2021Article
- Synchronous temperature variation monitoring during ultrasound imaging and/or treatment pulse application: a phantom study.IEEE open journal of ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · 2021Article
- Monitoring Microwave Ablation Using Ultrasound Echo Decorrelation Imaging: AnSensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
- In vivo ultrasound thermal ablation control using echo decorrelation imaging in rabbit liver and VX2 tumor.PloS one · 2019Article
- Optimized Echo Decorrelation Imaging Feedback for Bulk Ultrasound Ablation Control.IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · 2018Article
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Abstract
The ability to control high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) thermal ablation using echo decorrelation imaging feedback was evaluated in ex vivo bovine liver. Sonications were automatically ceased when the minimum cumulative echo decorrelation within the region of interest exceeded an ablation control threshold, determined from preliminary experiments as -2.7 (log-scaled decorrelation per millisecond), corresponding to 90% specificity for local ablation prediction. Controlled HIFU thermal ablation experiments were compared with uncontrolled experiments employing two, five or nine sonication cycles. Means and standard errors of the lesion width, area and depth, as well as receiver operating characteristic curves testing ablation prediction performance, were computed for each group. Controlled trials exhibited significantly smaller average lesion area, width and treatment time than five-cycle or nine-cycle uncontrolled trials and also had significantly greater prediction capability than two-cycle uncontrolled trials. These results suggest echo decorrelation imaging is an effective approach to real-time HIFU ablation control.
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