ter Haar G
Physics Department, Royal Marsden Hospital: Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, United Kingdom.
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High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is a technique that was first investigated in the 1940s as a method of destroying selective regions within the brain in neuro-surgical An ultrasound beam can be brought to a tight focus at a distance from its source, and if sufficient energy is concentrated within the focus, the cells lying within this focal volume are killed, whereas those lying elsewhere are spared. This is a noninvasive method of producing selective and trackless tissue destruction in deep seated targets in the body, without damage to overlying tissues. This field, known both as HIFU and focused ultrasound surgery (FUS), is reviewed in this article.
高强度聚焦超声（HIFU）是一种在20世纪40年代首次被研究的技术，作为神经外科手术中破坏脑内特定区域的一种方法。超声束可以在离其源一定距离处聚焦到一个紧密的点上，如果足够的能量集中在焦点内，位于该焦点体积内的细胞就会被杀死，而位于其他地方的细胞则不会受到影响。这是一种在体内深部目标中产生选择性和无轨迹组织破坏的非侵入性方法，不会对上覆组织造成损伤。本文对这个既被称为HIFU又被称为聚焦超声手术（FUS）的领域进行了综述。
