Brain Focused Ultrasound: A New Era of Image-guided Neuro-intervention

A UCSF team that includes members of the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, is addressing new clinical and research neuro applications of High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) and Low Intensity Focused Ultrasound (LIFU).

Leo Sugrue, MD, PhD, associate professor who co-directs UCSF’s clinical program in focused ultrasound

“From the outset we wanted the UCSF Focused Ultrasound in Neuroscience Program to be multidisciplinary with close ties between the clinical and research arms,” says Leo Sugrue, MD, PhD, associate professor who co-directs UCSF’s clinical program in focused ultrasound with Doris Wang, MD PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Neurological Surgery. Dr. Sugrue, Kazim Narsinh, MD, assistant professor and neurointerventional radiologist, Eugene Ozhinsky, PhD, assistant professor, Kisoo Kim, PhD, postdoctoral scholar, and Tommaso Di Ianni, PhD, recently hired assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry, will present their work on…

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