ISTU 2009 - Aix en Provence

ISTU 2009 thanks its invited guest speakers!

This year, the ISTU 2009 organization was really honored to welcome worldwide known experts on HIFU, ultrasound therapies and innovative minimally invasise surgical techniques. Dr Feng Wu exposed a global clinical vision of the role of the HIFU technology, and 5 technical aspects of HIFU were presented: the transducers by Dr Pierre Khuri-Yakub, the ultrasound guidance for HIFU by Dr Gail Ter Haar, the MR guidance for HIFU by Dr Bruno Quesson, the dosimetry of HIFU by Dr William O'Brien and finally the cavitation effects by Dr Larry Crum.
While Dr Gerald Harris talked about the HIFU regulatory challenges, clinical applications were addressed during two key lectures: prostate by Dr Mark Emberton and brain by Dr Neal Kassel.
To give a complete overview on brain minimally invasive treatments, Dr Alexandre Carpentier reported his experience of laser-induced brain tissue necrosis. As another example of HIFU potential applications, Dr Stephen Meairs focused on sonothrombolysis.

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ISTU 2009 Guest Speakers Details and Institutions

Alexandre Carpentier, MD.
Department of Neurosurgery, Lariboisière University Hospital
Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris VII
Paris, France

Larry A. Crum, PhD.
Center for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound, Applied Physics Laboratory
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington 98105, USA

Mark Emberton, MD.
Division of Surgery and Interventional Sciences, University College London, London, UK.

Gail ter Haar, PhD.
Joint Department of Physics, Institute of Cancer Research
Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton
Surrey, UK

Gerald R. Harris, PhD.
Food and Drug Administration, Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Silver Spring, Maryland 20993, USA

Neal F. Kassell, MD.
Professor of Neurosurgery, Department of Neurological Surgery, P.O. Box 800212
Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA

Pierre Khuri-Yakub, PhD.
Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305, USA

Stephen Meairs, MD.
Department of Neurology
Universitatsmedizin Mannheim
Mannheim, Germany

William D. O’Brien Jr. , PhD.
Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering Director
Bioacoustics Research Laboratory Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL 61801, USA

Bruno Quesson, PhD.
Laboratory for Molecular and Functional Imaging-IMF
Bordeaux 33076, France.

Feng Wu, MD.
HIFU Unit, The Churchill Hospital, Headington
Oxford OX3 7LJ, United Kingdom