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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2017
Vermon S.a., Tours, FR;
Institut National DE LA Sante ET DE LA Recherche Medicale (Inserm), U1032, Paris, FR;
Universite Pierre ET Marie Curie (Paris 6), Paris, FR;
Carthera S.a.s., Paris, FR;
Alexandre Carpentier, Paris, FR;
An Nguyen-Dinh, La Riche, FR;
Jean-Yves Chapelon, Villeurbanne, FR;
Rémi Dufait, Tours, FR;
Christophe Notard, La Croix EnTouraine, FR;
Françoise Chavrier, Chezeneuve, FR;
Cyril Lafon, Tossieu, FR;
Michael Canney, Lyons, FR;
William Apoutou N'Djin, Lyons, FR;
Other;
Abstract
An interstitial ultrasound thermal ablation applicator for conformal treatment of an inhomogeneous tumor lesion includes: a body having a longitudinal axis; and a plurality of array transducers mounted on the body, arranged side by side and having azimuth directions parallel to the longitudinal axis of the body, and having outer faces disposed in a polygonal arrangement; the plurality of array transducers having predetermined elevation dimensions defined for directing emitted ultrasonic energy to obtain a conformal volume treatment of the tumor lesions. An electronic driving method for driving an applicator having multiple independent transducer elements arranged in rows and columns includes: controlling focal parameters of each row and column of transducer elements; and controlling a contribution of each row and column of transducer elements in a manner to provide a conformal ablated volume.