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S.M.A.R.T. F.U.S: Surrogate Model of Attenuation and Refraction in Transcranial Focused Ultrasound

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  • Joshua A Cain
  • Shakthi Visagan
  • Martin M Monti

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Low-intensity focused ultrasound (LIFU) is an increasingly applied method for achieving non-invasive brain stimulation. However, transmission of ultrasound through the human skull can substantially affect focal point characteristics of LIFU, including dramatic attenuation in intensity and refraction of focal point location. These effects depend on a high-dimensional parameter space, making these effects difficult to estimate from previous work. Instead, focal point properties of LIFU experiments are often estimated using numerical simulation of LIFU sonication through skull. However, this procedure presents many entry barriers to even computationally savvy investigators and often requires expensive computational hardware, impeding LIFU research. We present a novel MATLAB toolbox (data: doi:10.5068/D1QD60; Matlab Scripts: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5811122) for rapidly estimating beam properties of LIFU transmitted through bone. Users provide specific values for frequency of LIFU, bone thickness, angle at which LIFU is applied, depth of the LIFU focal point, and diameter of the transducer used and receive an estimation of the degree of refraction/attenuation expected for the given parameters.

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  • Joshua A Cain & Shakthi Visagan & Martin M Monti, 2022. "S.M.A.R.T. F.U.S: Surrogate Model of Attenuation and Refraction in Transcranial Focused Ultrasound," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 17(10), pages 1-8, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0264101
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264101
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