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Watch Now: Webinar on the Origins, Challenges, and Clinical Promise of Focused Ultrasound

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Professors Gail ter Haar, DSc, and David Cranston, DPhil, FRCS, provided a fascinating look at the history and evolution of focused ultrasound therapy.

This webinar explored the early rationale for developing noninvasive therapeutic ultrasound, the first bioeffects and therapeutic indications explored, and the clinical challenges that drove the search for alternatives to surgery and other invasive treatments.

Speakers discussed early successes and setbacks, key scientific discoveries, and the clinical needs that helped shape focused ultrasound into the transformative technology it is today.