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HIFU treatment available outside of United States

Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in hifu | No Comments »

USHIFU, LLC, the exclusive distributor of the minimally invasive Sonablate(R) 500 for prostate cancer treatment in North and South America featured a segment on high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) for treating prostate cancer outside of the United States using the ...

MR Imaging Accurately Determines Prostate Cancer Treatment Failure

Saturday, May 24th, 2008 Posted in hifu | No Comments »

A new study shows that dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) plus diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) can accurately diagnose residual or recurrent prostate cancer in patients treated with high-intensity focused ultrasonic (HIFU) ablation.  The study found that DWI had fewer false positives ...