An Ultrasound System for Local Hyperthermia Using Scanned Focused Transducers

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn BME-31, Issue 1, 1984, Pages 120-125

  Dickinson, Robert J ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS - ULTRASONIC EFFECTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION - MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS - FOCUSING; ULTRASONIC WAVES - TRANSMISSION;

LOCALIZED HYPERTHERMIC FIELDS; SCANNED FOCUSED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; TUMOR THERAPY; ULTRASONIC HYPERTHERMIA THERAPY;

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT;

COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYPERTHERMIA; NONHUMAN; THEORETICAL STUDY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

BODY TEMPERATURE; COMPUTERS; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 0021285967     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.1984.325378     Document Type: Article

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