Based in New York City, Jason Jaramillo, MD, practices at the Maimonides Medical Center and provides community focused care. In his work as an MD, Dr. Jason Jaramillo delivers diagnostic point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS).
Not limited to diagnostics, the uses of ultrasound include the emerging field of focused ultrasound (FUS), which is guided by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Employing a wide range of FUS intensities, this approach preserves nearby organs while having neuroelectric, mechanical, and thermal effects on the targeted tissues. Among US-approved FUS treatments are those for osteoid osteoma, bone metastases, and Parkinson’s disease-related tremors.
One way of conceptualizing FUS is that it’s like employing a magnifying glass in focusing beams of light on a point and burning a hole in paper. Rather than an optical lens, an acoustic lens focuses several ultrasound energy beams in accurately targeting a point deep within the body. Interesting, each individual beam has the same limited power of diagnostic ultrasound, until they are targeted at a focal convergence point.
