Focused ultrasound treatments can give patients new leases on life while also avoiding consequences of invasive treatments.
Just ask Pejman Ghanouni, MD, PhD, who for the past 15 years has been research and performing MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) procedures. Ghanouni is a diagnostic radiologist with Stanford Health Care Radiology as well as a professor and chief of the Division of Body MRI at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
He also serves as director of the Stanford Health Care Minimally Invasive MR Interventional Center and the Focused Ultrasound Center of Excellence.
In this episode, Ghanouni talks about how focused ultrasound treats pathologies like essential tremor, Parkinson’s disease, prostate cancer, bone tumors, and desmoid tumors, all without harming surrounding healthy tissue.
Pejman Ghanouni, MD, PhD, tells a couple patient success stories from MRgFUS treatments he performed.
Ghanouni also tells some success stories from patients he has treated and why focused ultrasound is becoming a more attractive treatment option.
Finally, Ghanouni discusses how focused ultrasound can grow in use as well as research he is leading in this area.
View the full episode below.
