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15 - General Engineering
University of Oxford
Passive spatial mapping of inertial cavitation during HIFU exposure.
This paper reports a novel method that enables real-time 3D spatiotemporal monitoring of acoustic cavitation during ultrasound therapies, ranging from ablation to drug delivery or tissue fractionation. The method described has given rise to a wide-bearing patent application by Isis Innovation (PCT/GB2009/051482) which is being licensed both to therapeutic ultrasound manufacturers and to the University spin-out 'Oxsonics'. Prof. Coussios was awarded the 2012 Bruce Lindsay Award by the Acoustical Society of America, and the invention of passive acoustic mapping (PAM) was one of two major contributions cited in support of the award.