A Glance At Non-invasive Focused Ultrasound Monitoring By Ultrasonic Echo Signals

Description

Open surgeries are the most common treatment for tumors, specifically solid tumors, but it is invasive, expensive, and has side effects. As a result, several noninvasive methods have been perused to improve therapeutic efficacy and patient comfort. One promising noninvasive technique for treating cancer cells is high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU). In this treatment, ultrasound (US) waves are focused on the regions of interest (ROI) to heat and ablate abnormal tissue and cells. HIFU requires a suitable imaging technique to envisage the target and monitor the treatment process. While imaging guidance can potentially increase clinical use and broaden HIFU’s applications, which imaging platform should be used remains debatable. In this work, we proposed a US-guided HIFU technique, and results demonstrated that this novel proposed approach is more feasible and effective in temperature change estimation than its predecessors.
Having said that, imaging needs some signal and image processing techniques like compressed sensing, wavelet transform, etc, which are important. In this book, all essential knowledge about the proposed approach will be discussed in details.