(Харківський національний автомобільно-дорожній університет, 2022) Kosiachuk, S. L.; Storchak, O. H.
Transcranial focused ultrasound is a modern medical
technology that allows a noninvasive neurostimulation on the brain. This
technique has been developing for about 20 years and a lot of possible
applications of the technology are only at the preclinical research stage.
The greatest progress has been made in the field of functional
neurosurgery when focused ultrasound allows non-invasive therapy to
create small destruction areas in the corresponding targets under constant
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) control to have therapeutic
neuromodulatory effects upon Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, pain
syndromes, obsessive-compulsive disorders and other diseases. To date,
this treatment has been provided for more than 300 patients. The single
cases of the ultrasonic thermal destruction of intracranial neoplasms have
been published recently. The attempts of ultrasonic third ventriculostomy
are made to treat animals.
