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ArticleIEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control2022

In Vivo Aberration Correction for Transcutaneous HIFU Therapy Using a Multielement Array.

Gilles P L Thomas, Tatiana D Khokhlova, Oleg A Sapozhnikov, Yak-Nam Wang, Stephanie I Totten, Vera A Khokhlova

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Article in IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. A Fully Populated Transrectal Array for Boiling Histotripsy Ablation of the Prostate.IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · 2025
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  6. Respiratory Motion Effects and Mitigation Strategies on Boiling Histotripsy in Porcine Liver and Kidney.IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · 2025
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  7. In Vivo Cavitation-Based Aberration Correction of Histotripsy in Porcine Liver.IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · 2024
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  8. Histotripsy: A Method for Mechanical Tissue Ablation with Ultrasound.Annual review of biomedical engineering · 2024
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  9. Treatment Planning and Aberration Correction Algorithm for HIFU Ablation of Renal Tumors.IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · 2024
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  11. Clinical translation of abdominal histotripsy: a review of preclinical studies in large animal models.International journal of hyperthermia : the official journal of European Society for Hyperthermic Oncology, North American Hyperthermia Group · 2023
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  12. The histotripsy spectrum: differences and similarities in techniques and instrumentation.International journal of hyperthermia : the official journal of European Society for Hyperthermic Oncology, North American Hyperthermia Group · 2023
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  13. Aberration correction in abdominal histotripsy.International journal of hyperthermia : the official journal of European Society for Hyperthermic Oncology, North American Hyperthermia Group · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Gilles P L Thomas
Tatiana D Khokhlova
Oleg A Sapozhnikov
Yak-Nam Wang
Stephanie I Totten
Vera A Khokhlova

Funding

Nonlinear Acoustics in Calibration/Metrology of High Intensity Focused UltrasoundR01EB007643 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI KHOKHLOVA, VERA · 2008 to 2020
$6.9M
Strategies in therapeutic ultrasound for predicting in situ fields and quantifying the impact of tissue inhomogeneitiesR01EB025187 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI SAPOZHNIKOV, OLEG · 2018 to 2021
$2.1M
Histotripsy liquefaction of clinically significant hematomasR01GM122859 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI KHOKHLOVA, TATIANA · 2017 to 2020
$1.2M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB007643NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB025187NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM122859
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

One of the challenges of transcutaneous high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) therapies, especially ones relying heavily on shock formation, such as boiling histotripsy (BH), is the loss of focusing from aberration induced by the heterogeneities of the body wall. Here, a methodology to execute aberration correction in vivo is proposed. A custom BH system consisting of a 1.5-MHz phased array of 256 elements connected to a Verasonics V1 system is used in pulse/echo mode on a porcine model under general anesthesia. Estimation of the time shifts needed to correct for aberration in the liver and kidney is done by maximizing the value of the coherence factor on the acquired backscattered signals. As this process requires multiple pulse/echo sequences on a moving target to converge to a solution, tracking is also implemented to ensure that the same target is used between each iteration. The method was validated by comparing the acoustic power needed to generate a boiling bubble at one target with aberration correction and at another target within a 5-mm radius without aberration correction. Results show that the aberration correction effectively lowers the acoustic power required to reach boiling by up to 45%, confirming that it indeed restored formation of the nonlinear shock front at the focus.

Indexed as

Extracorporeal Shockwave TherapyHigh-Intensity Focused Ultrasound AblationAbdomenAnimalsKidneyLiverSwine

Identifiers

PMID35981067
PMCPMC9714798

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