Trans-cranial focused ultrasound without hair shaving: feasibility study in an ex vivo cadaver model. Eames, M. D., Hananel, A., Snell, J. W, Kassell, N. F, & Aubry, J. Journal of Therapeutic Ultrasound, 1(1):24, December, 2014.
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In preparing a patient for a trans-cranial magnetic resonance (MR)-guided focused ultrasound procedure, current practice is to shave the patient’s head on treatment day. Here we present an initial attempt to evaluate the feasibility of trans-cranial focused ultrasound in an unshaved, ex vivo human head model. A human skull filled with tissue-mimicking phantom and covered with a wig made of human hair was sonicated using 220- and 710-kHz head transducers to evaluate the feasibility of acoustic energy transfer. Heating at the focal point was measured by MR proton resonance shift thermometry. Results showed that the hair had a negligible effect on focal spot thermal rise at 220 kHz and a 17% drop in temperature elevation when using 710 kHz.
@article{eames_trans-cranial_2014,
	title = {Trans-cranial focused ultrasound without hair shaving: feasibility study in an ex vivo cadaver model},
	volume = {1},
	issn = {2050-5736},
	shorttitle = {Trans-cranial focused ultrasound without hair shaving},
	url = {https://jtultrasound.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/2050-5736-1-24},
	doi = {10.1186/2050-5736-1-24},
	abstract = {In preparing a patient for a trans-cranial magnetic resonance (MR)-guided focused ultrasound procedure, current practice is to shave the patient’s head on treatment day. Here we present an initial attempt to evaluate the feasibility of trans-cranial focused ultrasound in an unshaved, ex vivo human head model. A human skull filled with tissue-mimicking phantom and covered with a wig made of human hair was sonicated using 220- and 710-kHz head transducers to evaluate the feasibility of acoustic energy transfer. Heating at the focal point was measured by MR proton resonance shift thermometry. Results showed that the hair had a negligible effect on focal spot thermal rise at 220 kHz and a 17\% drop in temperature elevation when using 710 kHz.},
	language = {en},
	number = {1},
	urldate = {2022-02-22},
	journal = {Journal of Therapeutic Ultrasound},
	author = {Eames, Matthew DC and Hananel, Arik and Snell, John W and Kassell, Neal F and Aubry, Jean-Francois},
	month = dec,
	year = {2014},
	pages = {24},
}

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