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Thomas Dworetzky, Contributing Reporter | May 03, 2017
Treatment with focused ultrasound made news in December, 2016, when the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust became the first in the U.K. to treat essential tremor with the technology.
"This breakthrough allows us now to operate on these patients without the significant risks that inserting an electrode 15 cm deep into the brain entails," Dr. Dipankar Nandi, consultant neurosurgeon,
said at the time.
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In an interview in the April issue of Healthcare Business News magazine, Dr. Maurice R. Ferré, INSIGHTEC's CEO and chairman,
explained why he is so optimistic about the technology's potential.
“Focused ultrasound shows promise in becoming a new era for the way we look at surgical procedures and patient care. All of us, and the health care system at large, would opt for undergoing a surgical procedure that is incisionless, without lengthy hospital stays or succumbing ourselves to the risk of infection. We are quickly beginning to realize the enormous potential of focused ultrasound and we are constantly researching treatments for a variety of clinical indications that many thought were impossible to treat.”
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