2A1-M01 Ex vivo experiments with swine kidney by non invasive ultrasound theragonstic system

Abstract

The authors have developed a non-invasive ultrasound theragnostic system to decrease the strain of patients and medical doctors. The system we propose tracks and follows movement in an affected area -kidney stones here- while High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) is irradiated onto the area. The visual servoing performance of the target could be difficult in accordance with the ultrasound image quality. Then in the present paper, we report the result of the ex vivo stone motion tracking experiment, while the High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) is irradiated onto the kidney stone to confirm the effectiveness and extract the problem of the constructed system.