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This is fun, and the modeling is cool for sure, but it's well known that ultrasound can be used with surgical precision in the human brain.

Focused ultrasound is already used for non-invasive neuromodulation. Raag Airan's lab at Stanford does this for example using ultrasound uncaging.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/1...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089662731...

Also see the work by Urvi Vyas, eg

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27587047/

I don't mean to discount the cool imaging-related reconstruction of a point spread function, but rather to say that ultrasound attenuation through the skull an soft tissue has already been well characterized and it's not a surprise that it is viable to pass through.

parent tbenst 2 years ago

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