Valerio, M
Stricker, P D
Ahmed, H U
Dickinson, L
Ponsky, L
Shnier, R
Allen, C
Emberton, M
Article History
Received: 21 March 2014
Revised: 29 May 2014
Accepted: 25 July 2014
First Online: 2 September 2014
Competing interests
: M. Valerio has received funding for conference attendance from Geoscan Medical. M. Emberton and H.U. Ahmed receive funding from USHIFU, GSK, AngioDynamics and Advanced Medical Diagnostics for clinical trials. M. Emberton is a paid consultant to AngioDynamics, Steba Biotech and SonaCare Medical (previously called USHIFU). Both have previously received consultancy payments from Oncura/GE Healthcare and Steba Biotech. L. Dickinson has received trial funding support from SonaCare Medical and consultancy fees from SonaCare Medical and Oncura. None of these sources had any input whatsoever into this article. The remaining authors declare no conflicts of interest.