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  • Hi Yoav, truly groundbreaking inspiring work!

    I hear you mention better than surgery results on breast cancer. I searched the world map for the MRgFUS studies but could not find the studies for the breast cancer. How can one seek to apply this to a breast cancer patient today?? You mentioned the challenges with a living breathing patient but it seems fMRI could help here.. in coordination with some clever software perhaps??. I would be very interested in your thoughts.

  • thank you for the response. Please keep me posted if the age requirement changes

  • Fascinating. Thank you Yaov Medan for sharing this with us, but even more importantly actually doing something for us.

  • My 9 year old son was just found to have a non germ germanoma tumor on his Pineal gland.

    Would he be a good candidate?

  • @14Bowser No one under 18 is currently allowed to be admitted to these studies

  • Help me get this done! Treat me as a lab rat, I'm a volunteer! Where do I apply? I have trouble rolling over in bed and sitting up. HELP. I'll come to Virginia or Israel. I have passport in hand. Lets do it. Where is the line?

  • @luckychucky60

    I am not sure what is the exact medical condition. You may search at clinicaltrials.gov for MRgFUS and the indication you are looking for

  • congratulations for this tremendous achievement!

    is it possible to use this procedure to treat large jaw cysts? are there any hospitals in israel that use it - and in what fields?

  • @joelhajos Typically cysts do not absorb ultrasound energy.

    Treatments of Uterine Fibroids and Bone Metastases are provided at the Sheba and Rambam Medical centers.

  • @ymedan thanks for the answer. i will try find out why this is so. in the meantime i would be helpful for some references on which soft tissues can absorb US.

  • @joelhajos Hi,

    As a rule, any tissue will absorb. The harder the tissue is, the more it

    will absorb. Cyst is not a tissue, it is a cavity filled with fluid

    ("water"). Water does not absorb ultrasound energy. It needs to be drained.

    Yoav

  • @ymedan @ymedan Hi, Thanks a lot again for the clear explanation.

    The problem is that while draining the cyst the mandibular nerve might be damaged. This is what happened to me now, when they were taking a small biopsy, still before the main surgery, so I was left with local paresthesia. Again, these operations are not MRI guided and the surgeons just rely on their intuition and act blindfoldedly since they are unable to see the cyst and the nerve clearly. continued in a further msg

    Joel

  • @ymedan @ymedan

    Now they propose jaw bisection (essentially meant for patients with esthetical jaw problems) to get a direct insight and bone extraction from my hip and transplantation and metal plates to fix the whole "gestell". or another blindfolded surgery.

    MR guided US surgery seems so soft compared to this butchery...

    Anyway, thanks again for the wonderful work you do there at Matam, keep it up .

    Joel

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  • With this treatment rich people get really old and eat all the poor peoples food so they die of starvation.

    Since we have passed 7 billion people on earth now I think we should start focusing more on using our resourses better. And find a way to populate other planets, It's getting crowded.

  • Radiation free treatment... this is awesome and this is going to be very big.... we finally using technology fully to our advantage :D

  • I would like to know why anyone would thumb this video down.

  • goodbye chemotherapy and radiation, and good riddance.

  • In the future they will look back at current surgical procedures as barbaric. Civilization just went up a notch here.

  • Amazing!

  • I don't usually stake any importance on these things, but...15 dislikes? REALLY? xD

  • @OcularPolitics The dislikes probably come from arabs that don't like the fact that the scientist is israeli

  • Skip to 16:08 for an audio demonstration of focused ultrasound.

  • @beriukay LOL okay that was funny :P

  • I mean tumors are liquefied now or at least broken down........also treatment without knives just amazing!!!!!

  • if we can prevent cancer from forming with this that will be amazing!

  • cure to cancer or at least prevention?

  • I am CEO of Interactive Medical Technologies and are affliated with the University of Nebraska Medical Center. This process is truly amazing and should be brought to the maket as quickly as possible. I am also a colon cancer patient and feel I can benefit from your product. I would be interested if you have clinical trials available in the US.

  • This marks a breakthrough in minimally invasive surgery and completely eliminates the need for most focused beam radiation treatment. Safer, faster, more accurate and no ionizing radiation, cool.

    Like its predecessor stereotactic radiosurgery, It will probably take another ten years to make it through the various bureaucratic hurdles, as well as build credibility with referring physicians, oncologists and surgeons. Lars Leksell would be amazed.

  • wow. This is fantastic.

  • I bet the first thing Pentagon thinks about, is to make this into a torture weapon. 

  • @Ko252 That has already been done. Ultrasound and focussed sound is used as a weapon :-)

  • @spikeguard in torture?

  • @Ko252 well the one he means is a crowd-control weapon, mounted on jeeps or such, but I'd be amazed if they didn't also have an individual version.

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  • Brilliant Minds in this world...jeez! This is really helping picture the future as I'm just about to start University next year.

  • @IVIcIVIuffin dont let university get in the way of your education

  • Now all we need to do is create a new world order where humans can live on and progress without economics always pulling it down

  • Sounds so unbelievable that I at first took this video for some kind of New Age/art/music/self-improvement­/meditation healing. Now I'm amazed!

  • This is the amazing work that keeps my last threads of faith in humanity.

  • that is so good. i love this technology stuff

  • I LOVE SCIENCE FICTION!!!

    SCIENCE FICTION ALWAYS BECOMES A SCIENCE FACT!!!

    ;D

  • This is the beginning of a tricorder. Just make it handheld with a lot of computer power to compensate for movement in real time.

    Add goggles fitted with augmented reality and your set.

  • @ricande See XPRIZE.ORG for theTricorder challenge

  • @ricande don't need goggles, build a projector into it. Project directly onto the patient.

  • Where can someone go to get this done? This might help my mother.

  • @laniegonewild

    Israel

  • @laniegonewild See the discussion on TED.com for more info

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  • Fantastic!

  • its sad that people are so desperate and misguided they turn to things like this in forlorn hope. if only people would put their faith into the healing powers of the true lord and savior jesus christ you would see his love is all you need. praise him

  • @declareworr haha I will take that as completely sarcastic because that's the only way it can be taken.

  • wow, absolutely amazing.

  • I don't see why this couldn't ultimately treat an entire person's body in one, automated, step by step procedure.

    End-stage cancer: multiple small tumours all through the body. This thing can quickly reach every single one of them, zap each one, in a single operation. I mean why not? He said each sonification takes 1 second, so that's tiny 3600 tumours zapped in an hour.

    Have a short whole-body treatment every week.

    Computers scan and find them, computers aim and zap em.

  • @roidroid Because that would cost too much money and actually be useful. We don't do expensive useful things in this society. It's why our world is polluted and dying.

  • @beayn exactly, I totally agree with beayn, if our world wasn't "polluted" and dying (arguable on that second part), then people would not have the pandemic of cancers that have become so problematic in society

  • @roidroid there's a new video on ted about color coding tumors and stuff. with that you mark all tumors and then zap em cause you know where they all are and you're cured.

  • @roidroid Reminds me of McCoy's reaction to our "barbaric" medicine in "The Voyage Home".

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  • Somehow I just imagined an ultrasound weapon capable of scrambling a person's brain without a sound, flash, or any indication of where the attack came from. Man, that'd be scary!

  • @justicetrooper More importantly, it's entirely feasible.

  • Yoav, amazing surgery options. I'm thankful for people like you who excel in their chosen field and look for ways to improve the human condition. I'm not sure why people comment the stupid way they do sometimes - no wonder world progress is slow sometimes. I mean really who cares private, public, money whatever....it makes life better for people....get it!

  • "John is a retarded professor of history" Then how can he be a professor?

    "from Virginia" Ah, now it makes sense.

  • DUNE! "Some thoughts have a certain sound, that being the equivalent to a form. Through sound and motion, you will be able to paralyze nerves, shatter bones, set fires, suffocate an enemy or burst his organs."

  • i see war technology, o shiet.

  • @SHDharma it's all you people ever see.

  • which the collateral effect in the areas not in foccus ?

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  • TED Talks ROCK !

  • This is truly impressive... I love science :)

  • Essential Tremor, possible early onset Parkinsons sufferer here at age 34, can barely get a credit card out of my wallet at a cashier station on some days. Hopefully it will be more greatly tested in 2 years as he said, by which time I might be grasping at straws for a solution, if it's as bad in 2 years as the deterioration has been compared to now from 2 years ago. Keeping an eye on this =)

  • the common man has always known that healing can happen without cut and without machines. it is only those who refuse to imagine who think that this is not possible.

  • @41ndy All healing happens without surgery. Surgery is for people who are unable to start healing without outside help. I agree that most people seem to have forgotten this or never learned this and now depend on being fixed by others without thought of how they are actually supposed to fix themselves.

  • WOW!!! THIS IS AWESOME

  • Test

  • this is absolutely amazing

  • wow!!! I want one I mean this is great for all of human kind (but I would love to play with it)

  • perhaps this technology is tapping into another path that music travels.

    whereas this technology uses waves to focus heat, music uses waves to focus emotion, intention, or thought at a sub-conscious (vs sub-atomic) level.

  • @xjustamem0ryx you high

  • with all the shit in the atmosphere, no doubt.

  • sucks to have tattoos in the "operating room of the future"

  • @vivi028 Tattoos are not affected by MRI machines, that´s a myth. Only old (and some underground and unlicensed) tattoo paint contains iron, but in so small amount that it is unaffected by the magnetic field :)

  • @Erbasis Unaffecting the person but introducing distortions and artifacts to the image

  • This is great and all, but his whole delivery makes me mistrust this report. His appeal is almost entirely anecdotal and emotional. Further, whenever someone says that his medical treatment needs to do an end run around safety and effectiveness trials through a political means (essentially what he said) that raises red flags for me. Doing good science is hard and takes time and money.

  • @michalchik I certainly agree, with the major obstacle of the game of interests which can slow down progress to a halt

  • @michalchik the reason for that is probably because TED audiences are kindof vapid.

    And rich.

  • Yet another thing that takes a backseat to the likes of the he said, she said and people playing games in the modern media. . .

  • @Bracerjack jewish race? there is no jewish race, its a faith.

  • @Bracerjack they are actually Arabs.

  • @Bracerjack: Superior compared to what? You sound like a Nazi, are you claiming the master race?

  • I realize this is my problem and not his, but his accent playing on my ears makes "focus" sound like... not "focus".

  • Oh dear god... If you use this to blast the amygdala you could make fearless assassins or perfect expendable soldiers.

  • @goneutt Universal Soldiers is my favorite movie!

  • science, bitches, it works!

  • All these advances in tech. are great, but when the average person can easily get access to even an MRI without pretty much nearly dying from say cancer and then being lucky enough to have medical insurance.. I collapsed and was paralysed all day, and I was refused any investigative/diagnotic interpretation (public system in Australia)

  • I can't wait to see advances in being ably to subtly tweak homeostatic systems in the body with long term effectiveness (now that would be impressive with the complex web of systems that interplay and their feedback systems)..

  • this is incredibly scary, because as much as they are claiming the "healing effects" technically all they can do is clumsily destroy tissue potentially without gaining consent from someone being experimented upon or manipulated potentially "without a trace", or sterilised (looking at the population reduction agenda with a little eugenics twist being handballed around by certain influential people) which to me is something that has probably already been done behind closed doors or considered..

  • @melaniejaynecampen I mean (to edit and balance previous comment) it is an amazing advancement, and thank god, but while there are people starving in the world, and the majority of the population has a hard time even getting access to an MRI (even in Australia) due to the expense of the equipment and the cheapness with which we treat life, and the average doctor in a bulk bill clinic will see you for 2 minutes and tell you to keep your fluids up when you come to him for having been paralysed..

  • @melaniejaynecampen I doubt that any deity had anything to do with it. Thank a bunch of smart scientists...

    But technological advances are always pioneered by the rich. They start expensive, and they become cheap and then the poor have access. Without the rich paying for experimental treatments, the process of making them cheap never happens.

    The poor have polio vaccines and anti malarial drugs because of the rich of the past.

  • @freesk8 "The poor have polio vaccines and anti malarial drugs because of the rich of the past."

    No that is not true, they have those things because of government sponsored research and generous scientists that decided to work for the good of humanity instead of their own enrichment. Almost none of the really good successful medicine we have today is trickle down. I have studied a lot of the history of medicine.

  • @michalchik And who pays most of the taxes? The rich. Govt sponsored research is far less efficient in terms of producing valuable results than private research. Also, scientists compete for prestige, reputation, tenure, grants and prizes. They are not only motivated by altruism. Those in govt are also self-interested. They want job security, generous pensions and power. You studied under collectivists and statist apologists.

  • @freesk8 Look, you clearly just want to worship the rich as the ultimate good of society or some such. If you have sources to back up any of the claims you just made fine. But don't just make shit up because it agrees with your ideology. Government research is less efficient by what measure? The rich pay mores taxes, what is your source. Scientists do seek prestige but prestige for their good works, why is that bad? In a democracy the government is what we make of it.

  • @michalchik The private efforts of the human genome project beat the govt one. That's just one example. Pvt research tends to lead to marketable projects, because corps that fund them desire profits. But govt rsrch does not tend to yield products and there is less oversight because bureaucrats do not have profit and competition discipline. The top 10% of tax filers pay 68% of the tax revenue. Prestige is self interest, not altruistic. Govt is no longer We the People.

  • @freesk8 If the top 10% of tax payers are paying 68% of tax (which I do not think is a particularly accurate stat by the way) then why of earth are they being paid much more than any single human should be paid- no one human being is that much more worthy than another- our differences are ultimately marginal and our valuable traits are spread out amongst society at many wage brackets more so than you must imagine

  • @melaniejaynecampen Who are you to decide how much is too much? Anyone who claims they can answer this question is looking for dictatorial powers. Are great basketball stars paid too much? How 'bout Steve Jobs? Brain surgeons? It seems to me that some people DO have skills that are so rare and so valuable that they should be paid MUCH more than say, and uneducated ditch-digger. We are all humans, and have equal rights, but some do more for society.

  • @freesk8 last time I checked most scientists I know are poor. This include my three closest friends who all have PhD's. They spend incredibly long hours researching new areas of knowledge or tech. for very little pay, so the only trickle down effect I am witnessing, is the rich trickling down more wealth and further medical benefits to themselves. Most large bodies of fundng come from taxation which is by volume paid in the majority by the poorThe onlythingthatseemstohavebecome­cheapislifeitself.

  • @melaniejaynecampen I'd like to see research funding that comes from poor people reduced. I'd like to see a separation between science and state.

  • @melaniejaynecampen *sigh* look, you sound like a paranoid delusional.

    Do you pick up a fork and think "this is incredibly scary" coz someone could stab you with it while you sleep? It could happen, forks are so very scary.

  • @roidroid You sound like a straight jacketed conformist in your thinking and equally or more delusional in the "everything is peachy" and as long as some institution approves of my ideas I'm "ok" mentality, good luck to you. It doesn't hurt to imagine the worst case scenarios for abuses of new technologies, it is healthy to be skeptical, and will help formulate possible laws, policies and safeguards against possible abuses or negative outcomes 'sigh'

  • @melaniejaynecampen i guess if you started your original comment with "haha wouldn't it be funny if:" instead of "this is incredibly scary:" it would have sounded less paranoid.

    i'm serious btw, i'm not just digging you, if you have intrusive thoughts like that then help is available if you wish. At the end of the day i'm just a person on the internet, trying to insert a question into your head that maybe, just maybe... you are not doing so well.

    Just, keep an eye on yourself ok? takecare

  • @roidroid wow..looks like I have won that little debate, if you are pulling comments like that that are personal attacks and not topical. Actually labelling whole families as "psychologically unwell" is a tactic used by fascist regimes to discredit anyone they want to take down (looks like you have something in common there) anyone from homosexuals to people with religious beliefs or anyone with dissenting views, great way to silence debate well done

  • ZOH a MY, a GOSH. Consider my mind blown, because this was as good as mental fellatio and I'm not even done watching the video...if you know what I mean...ladies* (*:see Demetri martin).

  • This is amazing. I hope the government/FDA endorses this treatment soon over radiation.

  • Wow, this is absolutely amazing. This is exactly what I want to do. Develop medical tools based on the fundamental laws of physics.

  • Fantastic! Strange so many were bothered by him being Jewish though...

  • Absolutely amazing! i can't even believe we've come this so far. They'll save millions of lives <3

  • Ultrasound circumcision.

  • Im really excited to see what the future will hold

  • It puts me in state of awe when I see how far we have brought technology. I wanted to stand and applaud here in my office!

  • When will this technology be available world wide? does someone know?

  • Consider that a few folks logged in and down-voted this video detailing impressive new modern technology.

  • Intelligent? Progressive? This.... is... SPARTA!!! -- or YouTube... whatever. Anything in reach of what Bill Hicks referred to as 'bovine America' has a very finite limit on those things you mentioned.

  • So what if he's Jewish? lol seriously? YouTubers can never be peaceful, this is TED, not "oh that part of YouTube again" section. Grow up, for real. Or. Just stop posting rants that don't pertain to the damn video. Discuss the video, not what some other youtuber said about your comment. And please, don't reply me, I can give a crap less, it's just pathetic already.

  • will this work with AVM or AFM in the brain?

  • I am completely shocked by the amount of antisemitic posts here. This is supposed to be a place where intelligent, progressive people come to learn, not to hate. What a disgrace.

  • @nadavs123 welcome.....to youtube :(

  • @nadavs123 Welcome to YouTube. I see you've notice our community.... enjoy your stay ^.^

  • @nadavs123 They all just watched on RT how Israel is spreading their 'anti-terrorism' training and stuff. Yeah, Idk. I wonder if anyone would even notice if he didn't say where.

  • @nadavs123 , thats because there are a great deal of stupid people who love to post absolute crap on really great pages, and ignorance equals stupid behavior.

  • @nadavs123 Jews are not progressive, they still cut little baby boys' penis tips off don't they?

  • @spacedreams2111 they cut off the foreskin u idiot! its called circumcision! and its due to hygiene purposes and religious beliefs.

  • @MBismac its a cultural one actually. the people living in arabia and northen africa have been doing it before the muslim faith and jewish. a lot of things come from previous cultures. but leave it to monkeys like spacedreams2111 to know anything about the outside world then the seezpit of the USA. where is a nuke when you need one huh?

  • @nadavs123 welcome to YT... its like the US. 80% of its people is clinicaly retarted with only one cure, a bullet to the head.

  • @AltairKamahl or an arrow to the knee

  • @nadavs123: Define progressive.

  • @nadavs123

    Yeah, I agree. This is TEDtalks, this is supposed to be a place of intelligence, not blind hate.

  • 4:52 John is a RETARD Professor? That's a bit harsh mate.

  • @troglodyte3344 pardons my accent - RETIRED

  • Amazing.

  • TED why you no go HD?

  • Israel saving the world again.

  • @HDvideosaregood while starting WW3 and destroying the Gaza strip....

  • can he be even more jewish? does he have to specify he is jewish?

  • This is amazing, a step into the future. I am happy to donate, where do I do this? If everyone donated $10 this technology could speed up and help more people to have quality of life. I am up for the trails!

  • @SarahChambersAudios You can donate here:.fusfoundation,org/Donate­/donate-to-the-foundation

  • @finix65 Thanks, for other who may cut and paste this address you need to change the comma for a dot after fusfoundation.

  • I know this is vastly irrelevant to the topic of the video, but the way he says tractor is funny...

    Trak-Torrr... :)

  • @belliebum12 we Israelis generally have a heavy and distinguishable accent when we speak English, because we use different vowels and some different consonants.

  • worst presentation ever, but nice to hear of a non-drug treatment of cancer.

  • Holy tits on fire.

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  • the brain blasting bit must be very dangerous, atleast in traditional open surgery the surgeon can stop a hemorrhage if it occurs. whereas with this if a heavy bleed occurs due to the wounded area, it would be inaccessible and probably lead to an immediate and excruciating death. the patient would be awake!

  • @quosmo1 True but I find it hard to believe that they haven't incorporated this. The talk is only 16 minutes, so he probably won't mention "trivial" stuff like this to people who often know little about this subject. This is all based on assumptions of course.

  • @ForYeensSake sure, would have liked to hear it though :) as my concern if it was pointed at my head would be are they really sure they are looking at what they think they are (in the mri), cause if its not a tumor and its an existing blockage of sorts, this could wreak havoc (i assume) :S and because of the non-invasive nature it would be unlikely that a prepared team of brain surgeons would be standing by to crack open my skull 'just in case'.

    im not against it though, this is progress! :)

  • @quosmo1 Well they are not really cutting blood vessles, all they are doing is denaturing proteins and leading to an immediate apoptosis (controlled cell death). Like pinpoint radiation which leads to apoptosis.

    The dying cells are mopped up by the cells in the brain. An the heat probably causes blood clotting in the area

  • @DocSolomon i agree, i just think that by increasing the temperature in the target area they could cause a blockage to possibly burst. if there was a partial blockage which looked like a small tumor which the sonication could cause to block or burst causing a more a serious problem.

    I just would have liked to hear what ideas they have to work around it, or that its a non issue as brain surgeons get unexpected bleeds all the time and need to deal with them immediately, impromptu, as it happens.

  • @quosmo1 yea he could have spent time discussing that.... then again he is only given a certain amount of minutes to speak.

  • @DocSolomon yep, was interesting and im in full support of it, it would be amazing! and i hope that when im of the age that i need such treatment that it is widely available ...

  • I think this Technology can help every single living soul and person on the planet, but saddly the Internet, was trashed out before many people understood and realized what it could do.

  • sonic screwdriver ftw!

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