Transcranial focused ultrasounds, guided using MRI alone avoiding radiation exposure from CT imaging, may be possible using AI technology

https://www.koreabiomed.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=12048

"transcranial focused ultrasound is a technology that can treat degenerative movement disorders, intractable pain, and mental disorders by delivering ultrasound energy to a specific area of the brain without opening the skull... optimized the neural network performance by comparing synthetic CTs' quality changes according to the normalization methods of MRI image signals... technology will also reduce... time and economic costs"

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