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AT-NCIGT - The National Center for Advanced Technologies for Image Guided Therapy

Blood-Brain Barrier Opened Non-Invasively with Focused Ultrasound for the First Time

A team at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto used focused ultrasound to enable temporary and targeted opening of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), allowing the more effective delivery of chemotherapy into a patient’s malignant brain tumor.

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