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Cancer Treatment

Cancer is the second cause of death in the developed world with 2, 645, 000 estimated deaths/year. Due to the wide variety of cancer types, stages and locations, there is no unified approach to treatment. Cancer therapy still relies on a wide variety of techniques. Traditional treatment options are surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy. New treatment approaches based on local tumor ablation have lately received much attention from the medical community.

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Thermal Ablation

laser alation of a liver tumorOf particular interest in this growing field of minimally invasive ablation therapies are the thermal ablation methods.

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Thermal ablation procedures

MInimally invasive, radio frequency or RF ablation of a liver tumor Thermal ablation procedures usually proceed in four distinct steps: planning, targeting, heating and validation.

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FUS - HIFU

Focused ultrasound based thermal ablation method Focused ultrasound is a very effective way to raise the temperature in a tumor in a completely non invasive way.

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Imaging modalities

MR image of the liver Image Guidance is an essential part of thermal ablation procedure.

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Phased array technologies

phased array ultrasound transducer and multi channel generator for electronic steering of the focal spot Phased arrays technologies are used in widely different fields like radar, radiotelescope, sonar, MR receive coils...

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MRI

Temeprature imaging during focused ultrasound procedure overlaid on anatomical images MR unique ability to provides temperature images of internal organs makes it the prefered imaging modality to guide thermal ablation procedures.

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