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News and Upcoming Events
• Current and Future Applications of Focused Ultrasound 2012
3rd International Symposium
Organized by the Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation, the symposium will spotlight leading edge preclinical, translational and clinical research related to one of today's most promising and innovative therapeutic technologies.
• Time Magazine has named focused ultrasound one of the "50 Best Inventions of 2011." The FUS Foundation has purchased customized reprints of this article and will be happy to provide a quantity of them to you upon request.
• Presentations given at the European MRgFUS symposium in Rome have now been posted on the FUS Foundation website.
• The video of Yoav Medan's presentation entitled: "Ultrasound surgery- healing without cuts" is going viral, thanks to its posting on the TED and TEDMED websites. More than 135,000 people have now viewed this presentation and we encourage you to watch it, too, and share it with your colleagues.
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The 12th International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound will be held at the Heidelberg Convention Center in Heidelberg, Germany, June 10-13, 2012. Plan to come early or stay late to enjoy this marvelous city and its magnificent countryside.
Heidelberg, considered to be one of the most beautiful cities in Germany, is particularly known for its landmark castle, its charming "old town," and its 625-year old university. Nestled in the hills of the Odenwald along the River Neckar, Heidelberg has inspired poets and painters for centuries, drawing millions of tourists to visit this romantic locale.
It is the perfect location for a symposium addressing cutting-edge medicine and science, as Heidelberg houses a world-famous research center and is linked with the German Cancer Research Center, Max Planck Institutes, and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
Come for the learning, stay for the charm.
View more details on ISTU 2012...
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Solicitation of Host for ISTU 2014
The Board of the International Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound is soliciting interested parties to host the 2014 symposium. By convention, it should be in the Americas. To express an interest, please contact the ISTU President at ( lac@apl.washington.edu) and he will provide the details about what is required to make an official offer to the Board. If possible, decisions will be made at ISTU 2012 in Heidelberg.
· Final Program
2011 Symposium Summary
We had a great ISTU 2011 in New York City with more than 320 attendees, 251 abstracts and 8 exhibitors/sponsors. We thank once again the sponsors and the AIUM without which the ISTU 2011 conference would not have been such a great success. The final program is now posted online and we look forward to seeing you in Heidelberg next year!
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History of Therapeutic Ultrasound
The discovery by Frank and William Fry in the early 1950's that high-frequency sound waves could be used to generate 'trackless', localized tissue damage greatly predated even the use of ultrasound as a diagnostic modality. However, the rapid advances in ultrasound, magnetic-resonance and computer tomography imaging over the last three decades have now provided the tools to make truly non-invasive, image-guided ultrasound therapy a clinical reality. In recent years, exposure of tissue to therapeutic levels of ultrasound has been shown to result in a rapidly expanding array of desirable biological effects, ranging from fast localized heating and tissue necrosis, to vascular occlusion, disruption of the blood-brain barrier, the activation of drugs and the increased permeability of cell membranes to molecules. As a result, the future of therapeutic ultrasound relies increasingly on engineers, physicists, clinicians, biologists and biochemists working together to identify and understand how to optimally deliver acoustic energy for specific applications.