Transcranial MR-guided focused ultrasound (tcMRgFUS) neurosurgery is a non-invasive treatment for essential tremor and many emerging applications. In the FDA-approved Insightec tcMRgFUS system, however, RF reflections inside the transducer create a curved dark band in brain images that runs through midbrain locations that are targeted for essential tremor, and signal is reduced at least 25% everywhere in the brain, which limits the set of scans that can be performed during treatment. This work proposes a simpler solution that alleviates the problem, which is to place a passive reflecting antenna or resonator above the patient’s head, with a “propeller-beanie” crossed-wire shape.
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