Progresses of focused ultrasound in brain diseases / 中国医学影像技术

ABSTRACT

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) prevents most therapeutic drugs from entering the brain tissue, which makes diagnosis and treatment of brain diseases difficult, especially diseases of central nervous system. Focused ultrasound can open BBB non-invasively and repeatedly by means of microbubble contrast agents. In recent years, experimental and clinical researches on focused ultrasound treatment of brain diseases have been carried out at home and abroad. The research progresses of focused ultrasound in brain diseases were reviewed in this article.