High-intensity focused ultrasound plus concomitant radiotherapy: a new weapon in oncology?

The potential impact of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) to general medicine and oncology seems very high. However, while in the research area, the development of this technique is very rapid and unchallenged. The direct application of HIFU to human tumour therapy is hampered by various tech...

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Autores principales: Borasi, Giovanni, Russo, Giorgio, Alongi, Filippo, Nahum, Alan, Candiano, Giuliana Carmela, Stefano, Alessandro, Gilardi, Maria Carla, Messa, Cristina
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3988614/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24761227
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2050-5736-1-6
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author Borasi, Giovanni
Russo, Giorgio
Alongi, Filippo
Nahum, Alan
Candiano, Giuliana Carmela
Stefano, Alessandro
Gilardi, Maria Carla
Messa, Cristina
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Russo, Giorgio
Alongi, Filippo
Nahum, Alan
Candiano, Giuliana Carmela
Stefano, Alessandro
Gilardi, Maria Carla
Messa, Cristina
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description The potential impact of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) to general medicine and oncology seems very high. However, while in the research area, the development of this technique is very rapid and unchallenged. The direct application of HIFU to human tumour therapy is hampered by various technical difficulties, which may confine its role to a marginal device in the surgery armamentarium. To deploy the full potential of focused ultrasound in oncology, it seems necessary to review the basic relationship between HIFU and external beam radiotherapy. This is the aim of the present work.
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spelling pubmed-39886142014-04-17 High-intensity focused ultrasound plus concomitant radiotherapy: a new weapon in oncology? Borasi, Giovanni Russo, Giorgio Alongi, Filippo Nahum, Alan Candiano, Giuliana Carmela Stefano, Alessandro Gilardi, Maria Carla Messa, Cristina J Ther Ultrasound Review The potential impact of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) to general medicine and oncology seems very high. However, while in the research area, the development of this technique is very rapid and unchallenged. The direct application of HIFU to human tumour therapy is hampered by various technical difficulties, which may confine its role to a marginal device in the surgery armamentarium. To deploy the full potential of focused ultrasound in oncology, it seems necessary to review the basic relationship between HIFU and external beam radiotherapy. This is the aim of the present work. BioMed Central 2013-05-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3988614/ /pubmed/24761227 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2050-5736-1-6 Text en Copyright © 2013 Borasi et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Stefano, Alessandro
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Messa, Cristina
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