Focused ultrasound probe for deep human tissue treatment, has integrated treatment and imaging transducers

摘要

The focused ultrasound probe has a casing (2) which rotates around an axis (8). An elongated treatment transducer, has an focused ultrasound acoustic emission axis sensible along the axis of rotation of the casing (2). It has an image transducer (18) whose image plane contains the acoustic axis of the treatment transducer. The transducer (10) is able to rotate inside the casing preferably around an axis perpendicular to the axis (8). The image transducer moves inside the casing along a direction parallel to the axis (8). The image transducer has a bar shape giving a linear sweep, its axis is parallel to the longitudinal direction of the treatment transducer.