High-intensity focused ultrasound treatment for advanced pancreatic cancer

• Main Author: Zhou, Yufeng
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences; DRNTU::Science::Medicine
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104762; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/20293
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Pancreatic cancer is under high mortality but has few effective treatment modalities. High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is becoming an emerging approach of noninvasively ablating solid tumor in clinics. A variety of solid tumors have been tried on thousands of patients in the last fifteen yea...