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Principles of high-intensity focused ultrasound a HIFU ablation employs a transducer, which creates ultrasound beams focused to a single focal zone. The acoustic energy increases near the focal zone. b This energy can be used to generate ellipse-shaped thermal or non-thermal lesions in tumors in a noninvasive manner
