Journal Publications (2015 ~ Present)

2023

Duclos S, Golin A, Fox A, Chaudhary N, Camelo-Piragua S, Pandey A, Xu Z. Transcranial histotripsy parameter study in primary and metastatic murine brain tumor models. Int J Hyperthermia. 2023;40(1):2237218. doi: 10.1080/02656736.2023.2237218. PubMed PMID: 37495214.

Choi SW, Duclos S, Camelo-Piragua S, Chaudhary N, Sukovich J, Hall T, Pandey A, Xu Z. Histotripsy Treatment of Murine Brain and Glioma: Temporal Profile of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Histological Characteristics Post-treatment. Ultrasound Med Biol. 

2023;49(8):1882-91. Epub 20230603. doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2023.05.002. PubMed PMID: 37277304.

Gupta D, Choi D, Lu N, Allen SP, Hall TL, Noll DC, Xu Z. Magnetic Resonance Thermometry Targeting for Magnetic Resonance-Guided Histotripsy Treatments. Ultrasound Med Biol. 2023;49(5):1102-7. Epub 20230219. doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2022.12.009. PubMed PMID: 36801181.

Yeats E, Lu N, Sukovich JR, Xu Z, Hall TL. Soft Tissue Aberration Correction for Histotripsy Using Acoustic Emissions From Cavitation Cloud Nucleation and Collapse. Ultrasound Med Biol. 2023;49(5):1182-93. Epub 20230208. doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2023.01.004. PubMed PMID: 36759271; PMCID: PMC10082475.

Pepple AL, Guy JL, McGinnis R, Felsted AE, Song B, Hubbard R, Worlikar T, Garavaglia H, Dib J, Chao H, Boyle N, Olszewski M, Xu Z, Ganguly A, Cho CS. Spatiotemporal local and abscopal cell death and immune responses to histotripsy focused ultrasound tumor ablation. Front Immunol. 2023;14:1012799. Epub 2023/02/10. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1012799. PubMed PMID: 36756111; PMCID: PMC9900174.

Haskell SC, Lu N, Stocker GE, Xu Z, Sukovich JR. Monitoring cavitation dynamics evolution in tissue mimicking hydrogels for repeated exposures via acoustic cavitation emissions. J Acoust Soc Am. 2023;153(1):237. doi: 10.1121/10.0016849. PubMed PMID: 36732269; PMCID: PMC10162839. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0016849

Zhang B, Wu H, Kim H, Welch PJ, Cornett A, Stocker G, Nogueira RG, Kim J, Owens G, Dayton PA, Xu Z, Shi C, Jiang X. A Model of High-Speed Endovascular Sonothrombolysis with Vortex Ultrasound-Induced Shear Stress to Treat Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis. Research (Wash D C). 2023;6:0048. Epub 2023/04/12. doi: 10.34133/research.0048. PubMed PMID: 37040522; PMCID: PMC10078321.
Bautista KJB, Kim J, Xu Z, Jiang X, Dayton PA. Current Status of Sub-micron CavitationEnhancing Agents for Sonothrombolysis. Ultrasound Med Biol. 2023;49(5):1049-57. Epub 2023/03/04. doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2023.01.018. PubMed PMID: 36868959

2022

Ning Lu, Dinank Gupta, Badih J. Daou, Adam Fox, Dave Choi, Jonathan R. Sukovich, Timothy L. Hall, Sandra Camelo-Piragua, Neeraj Chaudhary, John Snell, Aditya S. Pandey, Douglas C. Noll, Zhen Xu, Transcranial Magnetic Resonance-Guided Histotripsy for Brain Surgery: Pre-clinical Investigation, Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, Volume 48, Issue 1, 2022, Pages 98-110, ISSN 0301-5629

Yeats E, Gupta D, Xu Z, Hall TL. Effects of phase aberration on transabdominal focusing for a large aperture, low f-number histotripsy transducer. Phys Med Biol. 2022 Jun 30. doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/ac7d90. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35772383.

Lu N, Hall TL, Sukovich JR, Choi SW, Snell J, McDannold N, Xu Z. Two-step aberration correction: application to transcranial histotripsy. Phys Med Biol. 2022 Jun 10;67(12):10.1088/1361-6560/ac72ed. doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/ac72ed. PMID: 35609619; PMCID: PMC9234948.

Stocker GE, Lundt JE, Sukovich JR, Miller RM, Duryea AP, Hall TL, Xu Z. A Modular, Kerf-Minimizing Approach for Therapeutic Ultrasound Phased Array Construction. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control. 2022 May 26;PP. doi: 10.1109/TUFFC.2022.3178291. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35617178.

Worlikar T, Zhang M, Ganguly A, Hall TL, Shi J, Zhao L, Lee FT, Mendiratta-Lala M, Cho CS, Xu Z. Impact of Histotripsy on Development of Intrahepatic Metastases in a Rodent Liver Tumor Model. Cancers (Basel). 2022 Mar 22;14(7):1612. doi: 10.3390/cancers14071612. PMID: 35406383; PMCID: PMC8996987.

Vidal-Jove J, Serres X, Vlaisavljevich E, Cannata J, Duryea A, Miller R, Merino X, Velat M, Kam Y, Bolduan R, Amaral J, Hall T, Xu Z, Lee FT, Jr., Ziemlewicz TJ. First-in-man histotripsy of hepatic tumors: the THERESA trial, a feasibility study. Int J Hyperthermia. 2022;39(1):1115-23. Epub 2022/08/25. doi: 10.1080/02656736.2022.2112309. PubMed PMID: 36002243.
Kim J, Bautista KJB, Deruiter RM, Goel L, Jiang X, Xu Z, Dayton PA. An Analysis of Sonothrombolysis and Cavitation for Retracted and Unretracted Clots Using Microbubbles Versus Low-Boiling-Point Nanodroplets. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control. 2022;69(2):711-9. Epub 2021/12/22. doi: 10.1109/TUFFC.2021.3137125. PubMed PMID: 34932475.

2021

G. E. Stocker, M. Zhang, Z. Xu and T. L. Hall. Endocavity Histotripsy for Efficient Tissue Ablation–Transducer Design and Characterization.  IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, vol. 68, no. 9, pp. 2896-2905, Sept. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TUFFC.2021.3055138.

Greyson E. Stocker, Jiaqi Shi, Kimberly Ives, Adam D. Maxwell, Paul A. Dayton, Xiaoning Jiang, Zhen Xu, Gabe E. Owens. In Vivo Porcine Aged Deep Vein Thrombosis Model for Testing Ultrasound-based Thrombolysis TechniquesUltrasound in Medicine & Biology, Volume 47, Issue 12, 2021, Pages 3447-3457,

Lu N, Hall TL, Choi D, Gupta D, Daou BJ, Sukovich JR, Fox A, Gerhardson TI, Pandey AS, Noll DC, Xu Z. Transcranial MR-guided Histotripsy System. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control. 2021 Mar 23.

Xu Z, Hall TL, Vlaisavljevich E, Lee Jr FT. Histotripsy: the first noninvasive, non-ionizing, non-thermal ablation technique based on ultrasound. International Journal of Hyperthermia. 2021 Jan 1;38(1):561-75.

Choi SW, Gerhardson TI, Duclos SE, Surowiec RK, Scheven UM, Galban S, Lee FT, Greve JM, Balter JM, Hall TL, Xu Z. Stereotactic Transcranial Focused Ultrasound Targeting System for Murine Brain Models. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control. 2021;68(1):154-63. Epub 2020/08/04. doi: 10.1109/TUFFC.2020.3012303. PubMed PMID: 32746229.

Mancia L, Yang J, Spratt JS, Sukovich JR, Xu Z, Colonius T, Franck C, Johnsen E. Acoustic cavitation rheometry. Soft Matter. 2021;17(10):2931-41. Epub 2021/02/16. doi: 10.1039/d0sm02086a. PubMed PMID: 33587083.

Goel L, Wu H, Zhang B, Kim J, Dayton PA, Xu Z, Jiang X. Safety Evaluation of a ForwardViewing intravascular Transducer for Sonothrombolysis: An in Vitro and ex Vivo Study. Ultrasound Med Biol. 2021;47(11):3231-9. Epub 2021/08/28. doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2021.07.018. PubMed PMID: 34446331; PMCID: PMC8487993.

Goel L, Wu H, Zhang B, Kim J, Dayton PA, Xu Z, Jiang X. Nanodroplet-mediated catheter directed sonothrombolysis of retracted blood clots. Microsyst Nanoeng. 2021;7:3. Epub 2021/01/19. doi: 10.1038/s41378-020-00228-9. PubMed PMID: 33456783; PMCID: PMC7787976.

Wu H, Goel LD, Kim H, Zhang B, Kim J, Dayton PA, Xu Z, Jiang X. Dual-Frequency Intravascular Sonothrombolysis: An In Vitro Study. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control. 2021;68(12):3599-607. Epub 2021/08/10. doi: 10.1109/TUFFC.2021.3103409. PubMed PMID: 34370663; PMCID: PMC8645157.

2020

Choi SW, Gerhardson TI, Duclos SE, Surowiec RK, Scheven UM, Galban S, Lee FT, Greve JM, Balter JM, Hall TL, Xu Z. Stereotactic Transcranial Focused Ultrasound Targeting System for Murine Brain Models. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control. 2021 Jan;68(1):154-163. doi: 10.1109/TUFFC.2020.3012303.  Epub 2020 Dec 23. PMID: 32746229; PMCID: PMC7814337.

Sukovich JR, Haskell SC, Xu Z, Hall TL. A cost-effective, multi-flash,“ghost” imaging technique for high temporal and spatial resolution imaging of cavitation using “still-frame” cameras. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2020 Mar 2;147(3):1339-43. 18. 

Sukovich JR, Macoskey JJ, Lundt JE, Gerhardson TI, Hall TL, Xu Z. Real-time transcranial histotripsy treatment localization and mapping using acoustic cavitation emission feedback. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control. 2020 Jan 17;67(6):1178-91. 19. 

Gerhardson T, Sukovich JR, Chaudhary N, Chenevert TL, Ives K, Hall TL, Camelo-Piragua S, Xu Z, Pandey AS. Histotripsy Clot Liquefaction in a Porcine Intracerebral Hemorrhage Model. Neurosurgery. 2020 Mar 1;86(3):429-436. 

Worlikar T, Mendiratta-Lala M, Vlaisavljevich E, Hubbard R, Shi J, Hall TL, Cho CS, Lee FT, Greve J, Xu Z. Effects of histotripsy on local tumor progression in an in vivo orthotopic rodent liver tumor model. BME frontiers. 2020 Nov 25;2020.

Qu S, Worlikar T, Felsted AE, Ganguly A, Beems MV, Hubbard R, Pepple AL, Kevelin AA, Garavaglia H, Dib J, Toma M, Huang H, Tsung A, Xu Z, Cho CS. Non-thermal histotripsy tumor ablation promotes abscopal immune responses that enhance cancer immunotherapy. J Immunother Cancer. 2020;8(1). Epub 2020/01/16. doi: 10.1136/jitc-2019-000200. PubMed PMID: 31940590; PMCID: PMC7057529.

Sukovich JR, Haskell SC, Xu Z, Hall TL. A cost-effective, multi-flash, “ghost” imaging technique for high temporal and spatial resolution imaging of cavitation using “still-frame” cameras. J Acoust Soc Am. 2020;147(3):1339. Epub 2020/04/03. doi: 10.1121/10.0000802. PubMed PMID: 32237837.

Pandey AS, Gerhardson T, Sukovich JR, Xu Z. Histotripsy: Potential Noninvasive Management of Intracerebral Hemorrhage. World Neurosurg. 2020. Epub 2020/06/21. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.05.006. PubMed PMID: 32561356.

Mancia L, Rodriguez M, Sukovich J, Xu Z, Johnsen E. Single-bubble dynamics in histotripsy and high-amplitude ultrasound: Modeling and validation. Phys Med Biol. 2020;65(22):225014. Epub 2020/11/13. doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/abb02b. PubMed PMID: 33179611.

Goel L, Wu H, Kim H, Zhang B, Kim J, Dayton PA, Xu Z, Jiang X. Examining the Influence of Low-Dose Tissue Plasminogen Activator on Microbubble-Mediated Forward-Viewing Intravascular sonothrombolysis. Ultrasound Med Biol. 2020;46(7):1698-706. Epub 2020/05/12. doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2020.03.012. PubMed PMID: 32389332; PMCID: PMC7293952.

Kim J, DeRuiter RM, Goel L, Xu Z, Jiang X, Dayton PA. A Comparison of Sonothrombolysis in Aged Clots between Low-Boiling-Point Phase-Change Nanodroplets and Microbubbles of the Same Composition. Ultrasound Med Biol. 2020;46(11):3059-68. Epub 2020/08/18. doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2020.07.008. PubMed PMID: 32800631; PMCID: PMC8146824.

2019

Alavi Tamaddoni H, Roberts WW, Hall TL. Enhanced shockwave lithotripsy with active cavitation mitigation. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2019 Nov 12;146(5):3275-82. 23.

Li Y, Hall TL, Xu Z and Cain CA. Enhanced Shock Scattering Histotripsy With Pseudomonopolar Ultrasound Pulses. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, vol. 66, no. 7, pp. 1185-1197, July 2019. 

Gerhardson T, Sukovich JR, Lundt J, Lu N, Pandey A, Cain CA, Xu Z, Hall TL. Design of a Histotripsy Array for the Treatment of Intracerebral Hemorrage. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 145, 1862 (2019)

Gerhardson T, Sukovich JR, Chaudhary N, Chenevert TL, Ives K, Hall TL, Camelo-Piragua S, Xu Z, Pandey A, Histotripsy Clot Liquefaction in a Porcine Intracerebral Hemorrhage Model, Neurosurgery, nyz089

Wilson CT, Hall TL, Johnsen E, Mancia L, Rodriguez M, Lundt JE, Colonius T, Henann DL, Franck C, Xu Z, Sukovich JR “Comparative study of the dynamics of laser and acoustically generated bubbles in viscoelastic media“. Physical Review E. 04/2019; 99(4): 043103

Mancia L, Vlaisavljevich E, Yousefi N, Rodriguez M, Ziemlewicz TJ, Lee FT, Henann D, Franck C, Xu Z, Johnsen E. Modeling tissue-selective cavitation damage. Phys Med Biol. 2019;64(22):225001. Epub 2019/10/23. doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/ab5010. PubMed PMID: 31639778; PMCID: PMC6925591.

2018

Shi A, Lundt JE, Deng Z, Macoskey JJ, Gurm H, Owens G, Zhang X, Hall TL, Xu Z “Integrated Histotripsy and Bubble Coalescence Transducer for Thrombolysis“. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology. 12/2018; 44(12): 2697-709

Lundt JE, Rao A, Fowlkes JB, Cain CA, Lee F Jr., Xu Z “Coalescence of residual histotripsy cavitation nuclei using lowgain regions of the therapy beam during electronic focal steering“. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 2018. 11/2018; 63(22): 225010

H. Alavi Tamaddoni, A. P. Duryea, E. Vlaisavljevich, Z. Xu and T. L. Hall, “Acoustic Methods for Increasing the Cavitation Initiation Pressure Threshold,” in IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, vol. 65, no. 11, pp. 2012-2019, Nov. 2018

Sukovich JR, Cain CA, Pandey AS, Chaudhary N, Camelo-Piragua S, Allen SP, Hall TL, Snell J, Xu Z, Cannata JM, Teofilovic D, Bertolina JA, Kassell N “In vivo histotripsy brain treatment“. Journal of Neurosurgery. 10/2018: 1-8 

Shi A, Xu Z, Lundt J, Tamaddoni HA, Worlikar T, Hall TL. Integrated Histotripsy and Bubble Coalescence Transducer for Rapid Tissue Ablation. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control. 2018 Jul 23. 

Schuster TG, Wei JT, Hendlin K, Jahnke R, Roberts WW. Histotripsy Treatment of Benign Prostatic Enlargement Using the Vortx R(x) System: Initial Human Safety and Efficacy Outcomes. Urology. 2018 Apr;114:184-187. 

Macoskey, Jonathan J. et al. “Bubble-Induced Color Doppler Feedback Correlates with Histotripsy-Induced Destruction of Structural Components in Liver Tissue.” Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology 44.3 (2018): 602-612,

Macoskey, Jonathan J. et al. “Using the cavitation collapse time to indicate the extent of histotripsy-induced tissue fractionation.” Physics in Medicine & Biology 63.5 (2018)

Macoskey, Jonathan J. et al. “Soft-Tissue Aberration Correction for Histotripsy.” IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control 65.11 (2018)

2017

Gerhardson T, Sukovich JR, Pandey AS, Hall TL, Cain CA, Xu Z. Catheter Hydrophone Aberration Correction for Transcranial Histotripsy Treatment of Intracerebral Hemorrhage: Proof-of-Concept. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control. 2017 Nov;64(11):1684-1697. 

Gerhardson T, Sukovich JR, Pandey AS, Hall TL, Cain CA, Xu Z. Effect of Frequency and Focal Spacing on Transcranial Histotripsy Clot Liquefaction, Using  Electronic Focal Steering. Ultrasound Med Biol. 2017 Oct;43(10):2302-2317. 

Zhang X, Macoskey JJ, Ives K, Owens GE, Gurm HS, Shi J, Pizzuto M, Cain CA, Xu Z. Non-Invasive Thrombolysis Using Microtripsy in a Porcine Deep Vein Thrombosis Model. Ultrasound Med Biol. 2017 Jul;43(7):1378-1390. 

Lundt, Jonathan E. et al. “Non-invasive, Rapid Ablation of Tissue Volume Using Histotripsy.” Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology 43.12 (2017): 2834-2847.

Allen, Steven et al. “The response of MRI contrast parameters in in vitro tissues and tissue mimicking phantoms to fractionation by histotripsy.” Physics in medicine and biology 62.17(2017):7167.

Macoskey, Jonathan et al. “Real-time acoustic-based feedback for histotripsy therapy.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 141, 3551 (2017).

Sukovich, Jonathan et al. “Transcranial histotripsy acoustic-backscatter localization and aberration correction for volume treatments.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 141, 3490 (2017)

Vlaisavljevich, Eli et al. “Non-Invasive Liver Ablation Using Histotripsy: Preclinical Safety Study in an In Vivo Porcine Model.” Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology 43.6 (2017): 1237-1251

Vlaisavljevich E, Gerhardson T, Hall T, Xu Z “Effects of f-number on the histotripsy intrinsic threshold and cavitation bubble cloud behavior“. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 2017; 62(4): 1269-90

Mancia L , Vlaisavljevich E, Xu Z, Johnsen E “Predicting Tissue Susceptibility to Mechanical Cavitation Damage in Therapeutic Ultrasound“. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology. 2017; 43(7): 1421-40

2016

Miller, Ryan M. et al. “Bubble-Induced Color Doppler Feedback for Histotripsy Tissue Fractionation.” IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control 63.3 (2016): 408–419.

Sukovich, Jonathan et al. “Histotripsy pulse-reflection for 3D image forming and bubble cloud localization in transcranial applications.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 140, 3083 (2016)

Cain, Charles et al. “Histotripsy: Transcranial applications.”The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 140, 3030 (2016)

Vlaisavljevich E, Aydin O, Durmaz YY, Lin KW, Fowlkes JB, Xu Z “Effects of Droplet Composition on Nanodroplet-Mediated Histotripsy“. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology. 2016; 42(4): 931-46

Vlaisavljevich E, Aydin O, Lin KW, Durmaz YY, Fowlkes B, ElSayed ME, Xu Z “The role of positive and negative pressure on cavitation nucleation in nanodroplet-mediated histotripsy“. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 2016; 61(2): 663-82

Zhang X, Owens GE, Cain CA, Gurm HS, Macoskey J, Xu Z “Histotripsy Thrombolysis on Retracted Clots“. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology. 2016; 42(8): 1903-18

Vlaisavljevich E, Greve J, Cheng X, Ives K, Shi J, Jin L, Arvidson A, Hall T, Welling TH, Owens G, Roberts W, Xu Z “NonInvasive Ultrasound Liver Ablation Using Histotripsy: Chronic Study in an In Vivo Rodent Model“. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology. 2016; 42(8): 1890-902

Vlaisavljevich E, Maxwell AD, Mancia L, Johnsen E, Cain CA, Xu Z “Visualizing the Histotripsy Process: Bubble CloudCancer Cell Interactions in a Tissue-Mimicking Environment“. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology. 2016; 42(10): 2466-77

Sukovich J , Xu Z, Kim Y, Cao H, Nguyen TS*, Pandey A, Hall T, Cain C “Targeted Lesion Generation Through the Skull Without Aberration Correction Using Histotripsy“. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control. 2016; 63(5): 671-682

Vlaisavljevich E, Xu Z, Maxwell A, Mancia L, Zhang X, Lin KW, Duryea A, Sukovich J, Hall T, Johnsen E, Cain C “Effects of Temperature on the Histotripsy Intrinsic Threshold for Cavitation“. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control. 2016; 63(8): 1064-77

2015

Zhang, Xi et al. “Non-Invasive Thrombolysis Using Histotripsy beyond the ‘Intrinsic’ Threshold (Microtripsy).” IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control 62.7 (2015): 1342–1355. 

Lin KW, Hall TL, Xu Z, Cain CA “Histotripsy Lesion Formation Using an Ultrasound Imaging Probe Enabled by a LowFrequency Pump Transducer“. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology. 2015; 41(8): 2148-60

Zhang, Xi et al. “Real-Time Feedback of Histotripsy Thrombolysis Using Bubble-Induced Color Doppler.” Ultrasound in medicine & biology 41.5 (2015): 1386–1401. PMC. Web. 1 June 2018. 

Vlaisavljevich E, Lin K-W, Maxwell AD, Warnez M, Mancia L, Singh R, Putnam AJ, Fowlkes JB, Johnsen E, Cain CA, Xu Z “Effects of Ultrasound Frequency and Tissue Stiffness on the Histotripsy Intrinsic Threshold for Cavitation“. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 2015; 60(6): 2271-92

Khokhlova, VA et al. “Histotripsy Methods in Mechanical Disintegration of Tissue: Toward Clinical Applications.” International journal of hyperthermia : the official journal of European Society for Hyperthermic Oncology, North American Hyperthermia Group 31.2 (2015): 145–162. 

Devanagondi, Rajiv et al. “Hemodynamic and Hematologic Effects of Histotripsy of Free-Flowing Blood: Implications for US-Mediated Thrombolysis.” Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR 26.10 (2015): 1559–1565.

Vera A. Khokhlova, J. Brian Fowlkes, William W. Roberts, George R. Schade, Zhen Xu, Tatiana D. Khokhlova, Timothy L. Hall, Adam D. Maxwell, Yak-Nam Wang & Charles A. Cain (2015) Histotripsy methods in mechanical disintegration of tissue: Towards clinical applications, International Journal of Hyperthermia, 31:2, 145-162.

Duryea AP; Roberts WW; Cain CA; Hall TL. “Removal of residual cavitation nuclei to enhance histotripsy erosion of model urinary stones.”  IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control. 62(5):896-904, 2015 May.

Vlaisavljevich E, Xu Z, Arvidson A, Jin L, Roberts W, Cain CA “Effects of Thermal Preconditioning on Tissue Susceptibility to Histotripsy“. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology. 2015; 41(11): 2938-54

Vlaisavljevich E, Aydin O, Yuksel Durmaz Y, Lin KW, Fowlkes JB, ElSayed M, Xu Z “Effects of Ultrasound Frequency on Nanodroplet-Mediated Histotripsy“. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology. 2015; 41(8): 2135-47

Zhang X, Jin L, Vlaisavljevich E, Owens GE, Gurm HS, Cain CA, Xu Z “Noninvasive thrombolysis using microtripsy: a parameter study“. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control. 2015; 62(12): 2092-105