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Rajiv Chopra, PhD, is a pioneering focused ultrasound researcher and a dynamic entrepreneur who has started several companies.

Zenon Starčuk, Jr., PhD, research team leader at the Institute of Scientific Instruments in the Czech Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic. He is using focused ultrasound to study brain perfusion processes and their therapeutic applications. His team developed software to show what is happening in the brain during the delivery of focused ultrasound.

The final report from the pivotal trial of focused ultrasound ablation for essential tremor was published in the Journal of Neurosurgery. The data confirm that focused ultrasound is effective for reducing tremors, and the 40 patients who completed the follow-up at five years maintained a 73% reduction in tremors.

FUSMobile’s first clinical trial in the US will assess the safety and efficacy of its NeurolyserXR focused ultrasound device to treat chronic low back pain. Up to 90 participants will be enrolled at ten sites across the US. The NeurolyserXR is a portable system designed to heat and destroy target tissue noninvasively under x-ray guidance.