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      • Robust MR thermometry for MRgHIFU in breast and liver
      • MRI-guided localized delivery of chemotherapy using temperature-sensitive liposomes and HIFU
      • Induction of an immune response to breast cancer with MR-guided focused ultrasound tumor ablation
      • Creation and validation of a clinically-relevant ultrasound-enhanced drug delivery strategy
      • Microbubble -Enhanced FUS for more Efficient Therapy for Uterine Fibroids
      • Treatment of chronic functional brain disorders using MRgFUS: a pilot study
      • Translational Studies of the Effects of Pulsed HIFU using a Modified Clinical MR guided Focused Ultrasound Device
      • FUS-mediated Reversible Modulation of Region-specific Brain Function
      • MR-Guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound - Temperature Measurement
      • MR Guided Pulsed High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Enhancement of Docetaxel Combined with Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer Treatment
      • The Effect of Focused Ultrasound Thermal Ablation on Nerve Function
      • Targeted Delivery of Controlled-Release Nanoparticles to Brain Tumors Using Contrast Agent Microbubbles and High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound
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      • Funded Fellowship: Julia Kamp, M.D.
      • Funded Fellowship: Ronit Machtinger, M.D.
      • Funded Fellowship: Thilo Hoelscher, M.D.
      • Funded Fellowship: Evan Weeks, M.D.
      • Funded Fellowship: Timothy McClure, M.D.
      • Funded Fellowship: Zion Zibly, M.D.
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    • Development of Multifunctional Drug and Gene Delivery Systems (R01)
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    • Abstract submissions will re-open Monday Aug. 23; Young Investigator Awards available for upcoming symposium
    • Welcome to our new board member, Andrew von Eschenbach
    • Foundation at Congressional Medical Exhibit
    • Satellite Symposium
    • Treating stroke with MR-guided focused ultrasound
    • Zürich Transcranial FUS Results Presented at Annual Meeting
    • Province of Ontario Honors Profound Medical
    • Focused Ultrasound as Personalized Medicine: Part I, BATTLE Trial and Lung Cancer at AACR
    • On the scene of the 2010 Brain Workshop - The Last Day
    • On the scene of the 2010 Brain Workshop - Day Two
    • On the scene of the 2010 Brain Workshop
    • Third International Symposium on Focal Therapy and Imaging of Prostate and Kidney Cancer
    • New study released on MR-guided Focused Ultrasound and Uterine Fibroids
    • Thilo Hölscher M.D., Visiting Professor
    • A Small (funding-wise) Focus on CER for Fibroids
    • InSightec's ExAblate device approved in Japan for fibroids
    • First human trials for MRI-guided trans-urethral ultrasound technique for prostate cancer: Profound Medical Inc.
    • Third Autumn School on Therapeutic Ultrasound – Attendee Reports
    • ISTU Report
    • NIH Funding Opportunities
    • World Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Report
    • 10th Neurosurgery Patient Treated at Zurich Hospital with Focused Ultrasound
    • CBN Features Story on Focused Ultrasound and the Foundation
    • MR guided Focused Ultrasound Treatment of Breast Cancer
    • Society for Thermal Medicine Conference Summary – MR guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Stands Out
    • Society of Thermal Medicine Meeting Detailed Report
    • See it early, treat it early. MR makes waves for prostate cancer in Hawaii
    • Fibroid Relief Outreach Event
  • Foundation News
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    • FUSF adds three new staff members
    • 2nd International MRgFUS Symposium Announced
    • Founder Neal Kassell Featured in Podcast
    • FUSF funds targeted drug delivery research project
    • FUSF sponsors landmark MRgFUS Brain Workshop
    • FUSF expands its Research Advisory Committee
    • FUSF funds brain disorder research project
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    • Young Investigator Awards announced today
    • Early start announced for final round of abstract submissions
    • von Eschenbach joins Foundation board
    • Reminder: Abstract submissions closing August 16
    • Symposium early bird registration closes July 31
    • Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation Announces Initial Sponsors For 2nd International Symposium on MR-guided Focused Ultrasound
    • Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation Announces Speakers, Moderators and Panelists for 2nd International Symposium on MR-guided Focused Ultrasound
    • Abstract Submissions and Registration Now Open For 2nd International Symposium on MR-guided Focused Ultrasound
    • Lodewijk de Vink Elected to Board of Directors Of Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation
    • Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation Passes $1 Million Mark In Research Award Disbursements
    • Foundation dedicates its first Focused Ultrasound “Center of Excellence” at the University of Virginia
    • Foundation Pledges $3.1 Million for UVA Focused Ultrasound Surgery Center
    • First Major Medical Meeting Convening for MRI-guided Focused Ultrasound
    • John Grisham Joins Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation Board, Citing Novel Technology's Potential to Help "Millions of Patients"
    • Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation Announces Appointment of Veteran Nonprofit Leader to its Board of Directors
  • FUSF Newsletter Archive
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    • FUSF Newsletter: Volume 12
    • FUSF Newsletter: Volume 11
    • FUSF Bulletin 1
    • FUSF Newsletter: Volume 10
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      • ISTU 2009
      • 2nd Meeting of Intra-Operative Imaging Society
      • WFN XVIII World Congress on Parkinson’s Disease and Related Disorders
      • 1st ESMINT Congress 2009
      • STM Annual Meeting
      • Annual Congress of the IBMISPS
      • CARS 2009
      • ACOG Annual Clinical Meeting
      • ASTRO Annual Meeting
      • ISMRM Annual Meeting
      • AANS Annual Meeting
      • World Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (WSSFN) 15th Quadrennial Meeting
      • World Conference on Interventional Oncology (WCIO)
      • Workshop on Therapeutic Ultrasound
      • ESMRMB Congress 2009
      • Congress of Neurological Surgeons
      • SIR Annual Scientific Meeting
      • ASCO Annual 09 Meeting
      • 38th Global Congress of Minimally Invasive Gynecology
      • AUA Annual Meeting
      • UIA 2010 Symposium Powering Sound Ideas
      • Third International Symposium on Focal Therapy and Imaging of Prostate and Kidney Cance
      • European Congress of Radiology
      • The 15th European Symposium on Ultrasound Contrast Imaging
      • Third Image-Guided Therapy Workshop
      • STM 2010-Society Thermal Medicine
      • AACR - American Association for Cancer Research
      • ISMRM
      • 78th AANS Annual Meeting
      • ACOG's 58th Annual Clinical Meeting
      • ISTU- The International Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound
      • 2nd International MRgFUS Symposium
      • SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TECHNOLOGY, KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIETY. Freie Universit?t Berlin, Germany
      • 2nd International Conference on Drug Discovery and Therapy
      • 15TH MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF NEUROSONOLOGY AND CEREBRAL HEMODYNAMICS
      • AACR-Translational Cancer Medicine 2010 - USA
      • 2010 NF Conference
      • 2010 ASSFN Biennial Meeting
      • Third International NanoBio Conference
      • 2010 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS)
      • 2010 CNS Annual Meeting
      • Translational Cancer Research for the Ph.D. Workshop
      • RSNA 2010
      • ASTRO's 52nd Annual Meeting
      • UVA BME Seminar Series - Dr. Nathan McDannold, Ph.D.
      • 2010 NANS Annual Meeting
      • AACR IGDD Summit
      • AACR IGDD in Cancer: Opportunities and Challenges
      • Fibroid Relief At Last
      • ISMRM
      • AAPM 52nd Annual Meeting
      • 25th Annual Advances in Contrast Ultrasound - ICUS Bubble Conference
      • WCIO 2010
      • ECIO 2010
      • AAGL
      • ISMRM 2011
      • Imaging mediated Drug Delivery, from bench to bedside
      • European Ultrasound Meeting
      • NIH Uterine Fibroid Congress
      • SPIE Conference
      • Prostate & Kidney Cancer Symposium
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      • RSNA
      • Society of Interventional Radiology
      • Israel Society for Clinical Oncology and Radiation Therapy
      • ISTU 2009
      • 2nd Meeting of Intra-Operative Imaging Society
      • WFN XVIII World Congress on Parkinson’s Disease and Related Disorders
      • 1st ESMINT Congress 2009
      • STM Annual Meeting
      • Annual Congress of the IBMISPS
      • CARS 2009
      • ACOG Annual Clinical Meeting
      • ASTRO Annual Meeting
      • ISMRM Annual Meeting
      • AANS Annual Meeting
      • World Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (WSSFN) 15th Quadrennial Meeting
      • World Conference on Interventional Oncology (WCIO)
      • Workshop on Therapeutic Ultrasound
      • ESMRMB Congress 2009
      • Congress of Neurological Surgeons
      • SIR Annual Scientific Meeting
      • ASCO Annual 09 Meeting
      • 38th Global Congress of Minimally Invasive Gynecology
      • AUA Annual Meeting
      • UIA 2010 Symposium Powering Sound Ideas
      • Third International Symposium on Focal Therapy and Imaging of Prostate and Kidney Cance
      • European Congress of Radiology
      • The 15th European Symposium on Ultrasound Contrast Imaging
      • Third Image-Guided Therapy Workshop
      • STM 2010-Society Thermal Medicine
      • AACR - American Association for Cancer Research
      • ISMRM
      • 78th AANS Annual Meeting
      • ACOG's 58th Annual Clinical Meeting
      • ISTU- The International Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound
      • 2nd International MRgFUS Symposium
      • SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TECHNOLOGY, KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIETY. Freie Universit?t Berlin, Germany
      • 2nd International Conference on Drug Discovery and Therapy
      • 15TH MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF NEUROSONOLOGY AND CEREBRAL HEMODYNAMICS
      • AACR-Translational Cancer Medicine 2010 - USA
      • 2010 NF Conference
      • 2010 ASSFN Biennial Meeting
      • Third International NanoBio Conference
      • 2010 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS)
      • 2010 CNS Annual Meeting
      • Translational Cancer Research for the Ph.D. Workshop
      • RSNA 2010
      • ASTRO's 52nd Annual Meeting
      • UVA BME Seminar Series - Dr. Nathan McDannold, Ph.D.
      • 2010 NANS Annual Meeting
      • AACR IGDD Summit
      • AACR IGDD in Cancer: Opportunities and Challenges
      • Fibroid Relief At Last
      • ISMRM
      • AAPM 52nd Annual Meeting
      • 25th Annual Advances in Contrast Ultrasound - ICUS Bubble Conference
      • WCIO 2010
      • ECIO 2010
      • AAGL
      • ISMRM 2011
      • Imaging mediated Drug Delivery, from bench to bedside
      • European Ultrasound Meeting
      • NIH Uterine Fibroid Congress
      • SPIE Conference
      • Prostate & Kidney Cancer Symposium
      • ECR 2011
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      • AANS
      • ACOG
      • ISTU
      • SMIT 2010
      • SSO Annual Cancer Symposium
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      • AAPM & COMP 2011
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