Insightec, Ltd.

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Yoni Hertzberg

Yoav Medan

Yoav Levy

Shuki Vitek

Dov Maor

Benny Assif

Gilad Halevy

A focused-ultrasound or other procedure for treating a target within a tissue region can be planned iteratively by creating a treatment plan specifying a treatment location pattern and stimuli applied thereto, simulating the treatment, computationally predicting an effect of the simulated treatment, comparing the predicted effect against one or more treatment constraints (such as efficacy and/or safety thresholds), and, if a constraint is violated, repeating the simulation for an adjusted treatment plan.

Simulation-based focused-ultrasound treatment planning

Disclosed are systems and methods for focusing ultrasound transducers that include multiple separate, independently movable transducer segments.

Multi-segment ultrasound transducers

Ultrasound transducers may be mapped by varying a focus-affecting parameter and adjusting the parameter so as to improve focus quality. In some embodiments, mapping involves successively varying the phase of one transducer element, or group of elements, with respect to a constant phase of the other transducer elements, and determining the phase at which a tissue displacement in the ultrasound focus is maximized.

Mapping ultrasound transducers

According to the present invention there are provided an ultrasound system and method for glass deicing and defrosting, particularly of car's windshields. The system includes cube-shaped ultrasound transducers which generate high-intensity ultrasound waves which propagate in the windshields and heat it uniformly. Selection of the working parameters of the system is performed for specific windshields by a method including simulations.

Ultrasound system and method for deicing and defrosting

Ultrasound focusing may be improved by combining knowledge of the target tissue and/or focusing arrangement with focus measurements.

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Givataim, Israel

Yoni Hertzberg