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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2011
Ari Ilkka Mikael Partanen, Bethesda, MD (US);
Matthew Robert Dreher, Rockville, MD (US);
Pavel Sergeyevich Yarmolenko, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Antti Johannes Viitala, Espoo, FI;
Julia Kristina Enholm, Helsingfors, FI;
Max Oskar Kohler, Espoo, FI;
Ari Ilkka Mikael Partanen, Bethesda, MD (US);
Matthew Robert Dreher, Rockville, MD (US);
Pavel Sergeyevich Yarmolenko, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Antti Johannes Viitala, Espoo, FI;
Julia Kristina Enholm, Helsingfors, FI;
Max Oskar Kohler, Espoo, FI;
Profound Medical Inc., Mississauga, CA (US);
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD (US);
Abstract
A therapeutic apparatus () comprising a high intensity focused ultrasound system () for heating a target zone (). The therapeutic apparatus further comprises a magnetic resonance imaging system (). The therapeutic apparatus further comprises a memory () containing machine executable instructions () for execution by a processor (). Execution of the instructions cause the processor to: generate () heating commands () which cause the high intensity focused ultrasound system to sonicate the subject; repeatedly acquire () magnetic resonance data () during execution of the heating commands; repeatedly calculate () a spatially dependent parameter (); and repeatedly modify () the heating commands in accordance with the spatially dependent parameter such that within the target zone the spatially dependent parameter remains below a first predetermined threshold and above a second predetermined threshold.