High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound for tumor ablation
Available for academic and industrial partners
Description:
HIFU (High Intensity Focused Ultrasound) has recently been introduced in the clinic to ablate tumors. Thermal HIFU has been mainly used to ablate prostate or breast tumors.
We have installed an in vitro HIFU set-up which enables us to treat cells or spheroids under very specific and well-controlled HIFU conditions (ultrasound pressure, duty cycle, pulse length). Additionally we can measure acoustic backscatter during HIFU exposure and in this way discriminate between mechanical and thermal HIFU. This set-up can be used to thoroughly characterize various 2D or 3D tissues during or after HIFU exposure.
Link to a publication with this concrete set-up: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39293525/
Location:
Department of Pharmaceutics – Ghent Research Group on Nanomedicines.