• DOI:10.1063/1.1901645
• Corpus ID: 11157008

Safety Issues for HIFU Transducer Design

@inproceedings{Fleury2005SafetyIF,
  title={Safety Issues for HIFU Transducer Design},
  author={G{\'e}rard Fleury and R{\'e}mi Berriet and Jean-Yves Chapelon and Gail ter Haar and Cyril Lafon and Olivier Baron and Laurent Chupin and Fabrice Pichonnat and J{\'e}r{\^o}me Lenormand},
  year={2005},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:11157008}
}

• G. Fleury, R. Berriet, +6 authors J. Lenormand
• Published 31 March 2005
• Engineering, Medicine

In contrast with most ultrasound modalities for medical applications, (especially ultrasound imaging), High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) involves technologies and procedures which may present risk to the patient. These risks, resulting from the high power levels required for effective therapy, should be taken into account at the earliest stages in the design of a system dedicated to HIFU treatment. An understanding of these risks must thus be shared amongst the many players in the field… 

In contrast with most ultrasound modalities for medical applications, (especially ultrasound imaging), High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) involves technologies and procedures which may present risk to the patient. These risks, resulting from the high power levels required for effective therapy, should be taken into account at the earliest stages in the design of a system dedicated to HIFU treatment. An understanding of these risks must thus be shared amongst the many players in the field of therapy using high power ultrasound. Moreover, since the number of applications of HIFU has increased appreciably over recent years and the technology is ready to move from the research to the industrial level, it is worth now considering solutions that should be put in place to guarantee the safety of the patient during HIFU treatment. This paper reports thoughts on this, identifies some risks to the patient that must be taken into consideration in the design of HIFU transducers, and proposes some solutions that...