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AME Department Seminar

Speaker: Thilo Hoelscher , Professor and Director of Brain Ultrasound Research Laboratory Departments of Radiology and Neuroscience, University of California, San Diego

Talk Title: Therapeutic Ultrasound Applications in the Human Brain - From Noninvasive Surgery to Local Drug Delivery

Abstract: Despite its initial purpose of being a purely diagnostic tool the knowledge of ultrasound induced biomechanisms increased rapidly during the last years, changing significantly the scope of how ultrasound might be used in the future. Noninvasive surgery and local drug delivery became major research developments in the field of therapeutic ultrasound in the brain. Image-guided therapy using ultrasound, temporary opening of the blood-brain barrier, local drug delivery using acoustically active carriers or the controlled induction of cell modulations are major topics of current therapeutic ultrasound research activities. Besides conventional ultrasound techniques the development of high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) systems broadened the variety of potential applications significantly, including brain tumor treatment, stroke, neurodegenerative diseases or neuromodulation.

The rapidly increasing knowledge of disease mechanisms and progressing development in medical device technologies, such as ultrasound, provide new insights of how diseases might be treated in the near future. The activities in the field of therapeutic ultrasound are research areas at the interface of engineering and biomedical sciences with the highest future potential.

The presentation will give an overview of some of these applications using different ultrasound approaches and will provide an inside of current research activities in this field at the UCSD Brain Ultrasound Research Laboratory.


Host: Dr. V. Eliasson

More Info: http://ame-www.usc.edu/seminars/index.shtml#upcoming

Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: April Mundy

Event Link: http://ame-www.usc.edu/seminars/index.shtml#upcoming