Published January 26, 2022 | Version Published
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Focusing in on the Future of Focused Ultrasound as a Translational Tool

  • 1. ROR icon University of California, Los Angeles
  • 2. ROR icon University of Arizona
  • 3. ROR icon University of New Mexico

Abstract

This article summarizes the field of focused ultrasound for use in neuromodulation and discusses different ways of targeting, delivering, and validating focused ultrasound. A discussion is focused on parameter space and different ongoing theories of ultrasonic neuromodulation. Current and future applications of the technique are discussed.

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© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Received: 21 December 2021 / Revised: 14 January 2022 / Accepted: 22 January 2022 / Published: 25 January 2022. (This article belongs to the Collection Human Ultrasound Neuromodulation: State of the Art) The authors would like to acknowledge the assistance of Andrew Swenson in reading and commenting on an early draft of this manuscript. This research was funded by a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences 5T32GM008042 (to N.M.S.). Author Contributions: Conceptualization, N.M.S. and M.M.M. Writing—Original Draft, N.M.S. and J.L.S. Writing—Review and Editing, N.M.S. Supervision—J.L.S. and M.M.M. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript. The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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113745
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Funding

NIH Predoctoral Fellowship
5T32GM008042

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2022-03-07
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