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When noninvasive sound waves break apart tumors, they trigger an immune response in mice. By breaking down the cell wall "cloak," the treatment exposes cancer cell markers that had previously been hidden from the body's defenses, researchers at the University of Michigan have shown.
The 700kHz, 260-element histotripsy ultrasound array transducer used in Prof. Xu’s lab. Image credit: Marcin Szczepanski/Lead Multimedia Storyteller, Michigan Engineering Study: Spatiotemporal local and abscopal cell death and immune responses to histotripsy focused ultrasound tumor ablation