High-intensity focused ultrasound ablation combined with immunotherapy for treating liver metastases: A prospective non-randomized trial

• Xiyue Yang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiyue Yang, Yao Liao

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Oncology, Mianyang Central Hospital, Mianyang, China, State Key Laboratory of Ultrasound in Medicine and Engineering, College of Biomedical Engineering, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China, Sichuan Clinical Research Center for Radiation and Therapy, Mianyang, China

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• Yao Liao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiyue Yang, Yao Liao

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Ultrasound in Medicine and Engineering, College of Biomedical Engineering, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China, Sichuan Clinical Research Center for Radiation and Therapy, Mianyang, China

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• Lingli Fan,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliations Department of Oncology, Mianyang Central Hospital, Mianyang, China, State Key Laboratory of Ultrasound in Medicine and Engineering, College of Biomedical Engineering, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China, Sichuan Clinical Research Center for Radiation and Therapy, Mianyang, China

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• Binwei Lin,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Oncology, Mianyang Central Hospital, Mianyang, China, State Key Laboratory of Ultrasound in Medicine and Engineering, College of Biomedical Engineering, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China, Sichuan Clinical Research Center for Radiation and Therapy, Mianyang, China

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• Jie Li,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision

  Affiliations Department of Oncology, Mianyang Central Hospital, Mianyang, China, Sichuan Clinical Research Center for Radiation and Therapy, Mianyang, China

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• Danfeng Wu,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliations Department of Oncology, Mianyang Central Hospital, Mianyang, China, Sichuan Clinical Research Center for Radiation and Therapy, Mianyang, China

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• Dongbiao Liao,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Oncology, Mianyang Central Hospital, Mianyang, China, Sichuan Clinical Research Center for Radiation and Therapy, Mianyang, China

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• Li Yuan,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliations Department of Oncology, Mianyang Central Hospital, Mianyang, China, Sichuan Clinical Research Center for Radiation and Therapy, Mianyang, China

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• Jihui Liu,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Oncology, Mianyang Central Hospital, Mianyang, China, Sichuan Clinical Research Center for Radiation and Therapy, Mianyang, China

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• Feng Gao,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliations Department of Oncology, Mianyang Central Hospital, Mianyang, China, State Key Laboratory of Ultrasound in Medicine and Engineering, College of Biomedical Engineering, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China, Sichuan Clinical Research Center for Radiation and Therapy, Mianyang, China, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

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• Gang Feng,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliations Department of Oncology, Mianyang Central Hospital, Mianyang, China, Sichuan Clinical Research Center for Radiation and Therapy, Mianyang, China

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• Xiaobo Du

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: duxiaobo2005@126.com

  Affiliations Department of Oncology, Mianyang Central Hospital, Mianyang, China, State Key Laboratory of Ultrasound in Medicine and Engineering, College of Biomedical Engineering, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China, Sichuan Clinical Research Center for Radiation and Therapy, Mianyang, China, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6348-0636

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