# OnCo record bbb-focused-ultrasound (technology). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/technologies/bbb-focused-ultrasound/>
  a schema:MedicalTherapy ;
  onco:kind "technology" ;
  schema:identifier "bbb-focused-ultrasound" ;
  schema:name "Focused-ultrasound blood-brain barrier opening"@en ;
  schema:description "Sound waves plus microbubbles briefly open the brain's protective barrier so chemotherapy or antibodies can get to the tumour."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/technologies/bbb-focused-ultrasound/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-06"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-36340-0> ;
  onco:status "phase-2" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/glioblastoma/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/devices/>, <https://onco.cc/fronts/surgery/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/hifu-histotripsy/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/mri/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/liquid-biopsy/> ;
  onco:companies <https://onco.cc/companies/insightec/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/blood-brain-barrier/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-mainprize-sci-rep/> .