image: Diagram is of side view of equipment setup and high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) exposure placement. (A) Setup of the ring-shaped HIFU transducer and central diagnostic ultrasound probe within a bag of degassed water. (B) Placement of HIFU lesions in a linear track across the origin of the fetal vessels. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 13 issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by C.J. Shaw at University of Cambridge in Cambridge, UK, and colleagues was titled, "Noninvasive high-intensity focused ultrasound treatment of twin-twin transfusion syndrome: A preliminary in vivo study." view more
Credit: Shaw <i>et al. / Science Translational Medicine</i> (2016)