We are pleased to present this month's issue of Neurosurgical Focus, which is dedicated to MR-guided focused ultrasound (FUS) surgery, an entirely new technology that may well revolutionize the field of neurosurgery. Since the first human clinical trials were conducted using transcranial FUS treatments only a few years ago, there has been a surge in interest worldwide for the application of MR-guided, high-intensity FUS for the treatment of various disorders such as neurooncological disease, stroke, functional neurosurgical disorders, and many others to come.1 Diseases that were once thought to require treatment with invasive, neurosurgical operations may now be amenable to this noninvasive and precise intervention.
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