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Foundation’s 2021 Midyear Report Now Available

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News

FDA Approves Focused Ultrasound Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded approval of Insightec’s Exablate Neuro focused ultrasound...

HistoSonics Focused Ultrasound Platform Receives FDA Breakthrough Device Designation

The FDA established the Breakthrough Devices Program in 2018 to allow fast-tracking of certain novel devices. HistoSonics’s...

NIH BRAIN Initiative Awards Multi-Year Grant for Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation Research

Bin He, PhD, of Carnegie Mellon University has received a multimillion-dollar grant from the National Institutes...

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Events & Webinars

3rd Annual Glioblastoma Drug Development Summit
01-18-2022 12:00 am
Neurosurgical Societies of the Virginias Annual Meeting 2022
01-27-2022 12:00 am
21st Annual International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound
06-07-2022 12:00 am
13th Interventional MRI Symposium
10-14-2022 12:00 am
8th International Symposium on Focused Ultrasound
10-23-2022 12:00 am

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What is Focused Ultrasound?

Like a magnifying glass focusing beams of light on a single point, focused ultrasound concentrates ultrasound energy on a target in the body without harming healthy surrounding tissue.
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What can Focused Ultrasound Treat?

Focused ultrasound is being researched for over 100 diseases worldwide. While most are in the early stages, commercial treatment is now available in the US for essential tremor, tremor-dominant Parkinson's disease, uterine fibroids, bone metastases, and the prostate, and others are being treated elsewhere.
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