Therapeutic Ultrasound for the Heart: State of the Art

This work describes the use of therapeutic ultrasound as a treatment of cardiovascular disease including recent, state of the art approaches. Therapeutic ultrasound researchers have made recent advances in the highly dynamic and changing world of interventional cardiology where they are confronted with several challenges, such as of the complexity of ultrasound propagation in the highly heterogeneous environment of the thorax or the complexity of the heart (in term of motion and physiology). It is believed that with these recent innovations, therapeutic ultrasound for cardiac applications will soon have a place in the toolkit of cardiologists.