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TRANS-FUSIMO - clinical translation of patient specific planning and conduction of FUS treatment in moving organs

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The movement of the target challenges the application of high intensive focused ultrasound (HiFU/MRgFUS) for the treatment of malignancies in moving abdominal organs such as liver and kidney. Moreover, the anatomical location of the lesion is often behind the rib cage. The physiology of the organs, the dynamic and complex blood perfusion impairs the energy disposition in the tissue due to the heat transfer within the organ. To explore the full potential of extracorporeal FUS to safely and precisely destroy tissue in the depth of a moving organ requires sophisticated software and advanced hardware. In the EU project FUSIMO (http://www.fusimo.eu) a software demonstrator for the patient specific planning of FUS in the liver has been developed in order to empower the physician to perform safe, effective and efficient ablation of tumours and to facilitate prediction of the outcome. The new EU project TRANS-FUSIMO (http://www.trans-fusimo.eu) aims at the translation of this software demonstrator into a fully integrated system for the FUS treatment of the liver.