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ArticleIEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control2024

In Vivo Cavitation-Based Aberration Correction of Histotripsy in Porcine Liver.

Ellen Yeats, Ning Lu, Greyson Stocker, Mahmoud Komaiha, Jonathan R Sukovich, Zhen Xu, Timothy L Hall

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Article in IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  5. Histotripsy of the hepatic capsule and the gastric wall: acute treatment effects in a swine model.International journal of hyperthermia : the official journal of European Society for Hyperthermic Oncology, North American Hyperthermia Group · 2025
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7 authors.

Ellen Yeats
Ning Lu
Greyson Stocker
Mahmoud Komaiha
Jonathan R Sukovich
Zhen Xu
Timothy L Hall

Funding

Novel, Noninvasive, Rapid Tumor Ablation Technology using HistotripsyR01CA211217 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI XU, ZHEN · 2018 to 2022
$2.7M
Advanced multimodal image-guided histotripsy for precise, safe and effective histotripsy of liver tumorsR01EB031007 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI Paul F Laeseke, Martin Gerd Wagner · 2022 to 2026
$2.5M
Aberration Correction for Histotripsy Ablation of LiverR01CA282200 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Timothy L Hall · 2024 to 2026
$1.7M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA211217NCI NIH HHS R01 CA282200NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB031007
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Histotripsy is a noninvasive ablation technique that focuses ultrasound pulses into the body to destroy tissues via cavitation. Heterogeneous acoustic paths through tissue introduce phase errors that distort and weaken the focus, requiring additional power output from the histotripsy transducer to perform therapy. This effect, termed phase aberration, limits the safety and efficacy of histotripsy ablation. It has been shown in vitro that the phase errors from aberration can be corrected by receiving the acoustic signals emitted by cavitation. For transabdominal histotripsy in vivo, however, cavitation-based aberration correction (AC) is complicated by acoustic signal clutter and respiratory motion. This study develops a method that enables robust, effective cavitation-based AC in vivo and evaluates its efficacy in the swine liver. The method begins with a high-speed pulsing procedure to minimize the effects of respiratory motion. Then, an optimal phase correction is obtained in the presence of acoustic clutter by filtering with the singular value decomposition (SVD). This AC method reduced the power required to generate cavitation in the liver by 26% on average (range: 0%-52%) and required ~2 s for signal acquisition and processing per focus location. These results suggest that the cavitation-based method could enable fast and effective AC for transabdominal histotripsy.

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High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound AblationLiverAlgorithmsAnimalsSignal Processing, Computer-AssistedSwine

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PMID38837932
PMCPMC11479660

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