Ultrasound Temperature and Attenuation Monitoring for Controlling the Laser Induced Thermo Therapy

Laser‐induced optothermal response of gold nanoparticles: From a physical viewpoint to cancer treatment application

“…The dependence of several US parameters on temperature allows visualizing a temperature map, which is useful to adjust the laser dosimetry also in real‐time [246, 247]. The affordability of US systems and the use of non‐ionizing waves makes this technique appealing for clinical application, despite the motion artifacts and the unexpected variation in acoustic tissue properties.…”

Computer Aided Diagnosis of Parotid Gland Lesions Using Ultrasonic Multi-Feature Tissue Characterization

“…Applications for ultrasonic tissue characterization have been manifold in the past, including prostate cancer (Lizzi et al 1997b;Feleppa et al 2001;Scheipers et al 2003a;Schmitz et al 1999), atherosclerotic plaques (Bridal et al 1997;Noritomi et al 1997), testicular tissue (Jenderka et al 1999), ophtalmology (Lizzi and Laviola 1975;Lizzi et al 1987), liver and hepatic diseases (Lang et al 1994;Lizzi et al 1997b;Oosterveld et al 1991), myocardial tissue (O'Donnell et al 1981), staging of venous thrombosis (Kolecki et al 1995;Parsons et al 1993;Siebers et al 2004), monitoring of thermal therapies (Lemor et al 2000;Siebers et al 2006Siebers et al , 2007b, characterization of apoptosis (Kolios et al 2002), mammary tumors (Chang et al 2003;Chen et al 2002), classification of salivary gland tumors (Chikui et al 2005;Scheipers et al 2005b;Siebers et al 2007a) and thyroid alterations (Smutek et al 2003;Tsantis et al 2005).…”

Techniques for Temperature Monitoring of Myocardial Tissue Undergoing Radiofrequency Ablation Treatments: An Overview

“…Starting from 1979, early investigations assessing the feasibility of applying ultrasound imaging for temperature detection in biological tissues were carried out by several research groups [ 159 , 160 , 161 , 162 , 163 , 164 ]. Ultrasound-based thermometry has found certain applications in the field of HIFU [ 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 ], and RFA [ 69 , 70 ] therapies, mainly on hepatic tissues, and to a lesser extent during LA [ 165 , 166 ] and MWA [ 167 ]. Despite the large use of ultrasound imaging in clinical practice, only a few studies have been conducted in the field of myocardial RFA.…”