Kim Butts Pauly, PhD and Pejman Ghanouni, MD, PhD's MRgFUS Work Featured on JMRI Cover!

December 17, 2015

Congratulations to Drs. Kim Butts Pauly and Pejman Ghanouni! Their work in MRgFUS has been featured on the cover theJournal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

The article, Improving thermal dose accuracy in magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound surgery: Long-term thermometry using a prior baseline as a reference,  investigates thermal dose volume (TDV) and non-perfused volume (NPV) of magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) treatments in patients with soft tissue tumors, and describe a method for MR thermal dosimetry using a baseline reference.

In conclusion, this study presents a mismatch between in-treatment and post treatment efficacy measures. The prior baseline approach accounts for local heating and improves the accuracy of thermal dose-predicted volume.