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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2014
University of Washington Through Its Center for Commercialization, Seattle, WA (US);
The Trustees of Columbia University IN the City of New York, New York, NY (US);
Adam Maxwell, Seattle, WA (US);
Ryan Hsi, Seattle, WA (US);
Thomas Lendvay, Seattle, WA (US);
Pasquale Casale, New York, NY (US);
Michael Bailey, Seattle, WA (US);
University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization, Seattle, WA (US);
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods for diagnosing a pathologic tissue membrane, as well as a focused ultrasound apparatus and methods of treatment are disclosed to perform ureterocele puncture noninvasively using focused ultrasound-generated cavitation or boiling bubbles to controllably erode a hole through the tissue. An example ultrasound apparatus may include (a) a therapy transducer having a treatment surface, wherein the therapy transducer comprises a plurality of electrically isolated sections, (b) at least one concave acoustic lens defining a therapy aperture in the treatment surface of the therapy transducer, (c) an imaging aperture defined by either the treatment surface of the therapy transducer or by the at least one concave acoustic lens and (d) an ultrasound imaging probe axially aligned with a central axis of the therapy aperture.