Recommendations for Reporting Therapeutic Ultrasound Treatment Parameters

Abstract

These recommendations are intended to provide guidance and to encourage best practice in reporting therapeutic ultrasound treatment parameters. Detailed uniform reporting will allow testing of therapy ultrasound systems and protocols, cross-comparison of studies between different teams using different systems and validation of therapeutic bio-effects. These recommendations have been divided into two sets, one for clinical and one for preclinical studies, each with stratified reporting categories, to account for the disparities in expertise and access to equipment between sites. The recommendations are intended to be useful for clinicians and researchers, for ethical and funding review boards and for the editors and reviewers of scientific journals.

Keywords: Acoustic cavitation; Acoustic pressure; Exposure parameters; Focused ultrasound; High-intensity focused ultrasound; Histotripsy; Intensity; Therapy ultrasound.