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Blasting drugs into your brain with ultrasound: Is this the future of chemotherapy?

2014-05-27 21:06:56| Extremetech

Phased array technology enables an ultrasound beam to be focused to pinpoint locations inside the body. Researchers from Chang Gung University in Taiwan have now managed to shrink tumors deep inside the brains of rats by using this technique to blast drugs in through tiny channels created within the vasculature.

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