Columbia University researchers are the first to show that focused ultrasound—a noninvasive technique that uses sound waves to enhance the delivery of drugs into the brain—can be safely used in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Acoustic signals from microbubbles can measure how well focused ultrasound opens the blood-brain barrier. The ...

A new, incision-free technique developed at UVA Health to treat debilitating brain lesions called cerebral cavernous malformations, or cavernomas, has shown great promise in early testing, halting the ...

Results from a pilot clinical trial evaluating the safety and feasibility of repeated focused ultrasound-induced blood–brain barrier (BBB) opening combined with the monoclonal antibody drug Avastin ...

The Focused Ultrasound Foundation, based in Virginia, hailed his procedure as a "key landmark event" in the evolution of ultrasound as a noninvasive treatment for brain cancer, an alternative to ...

Columbia University researchers are the first to show that focused ultrasound - a non-invasive technique that uses sound waves to enhance the delivery of drugs into the brain - can be safely used in ...

For decades, scientists have searched for a safe way to reach deep parts of the human brain without cutting into the skull.

When Graeme F. Woodworth, MD, decided to focus his research efforts on glioblastomas, “everybody thought it was a dead end,” the neurosurgeon recalled. It wasn’t an unusual path for him. His first job ...