[Technique of high intensity focused ultrasound for tumor therapy].
HIFU technique has been applied in clinic tumor therapy for over ten years. It is the important indication of a new development stage of the ultrasound in medicine. In the paper, the present status of HIFU for tumor treatment is introduced and its future development is discussed too.
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Department of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. wdshou@sjtu.edu.cn
D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014159:Transducers; D036761:Ultrasound, High-Intensity Focused, Transrectal / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods