Multiple-Focus Ultrasound Phased-Array Pattern Synthesis: Optimal Driving-Signal Distributions for Hyperthermia

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1989, Pages 540-548

  Ebbini, Emad S ^a   Cain, Charles A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; ULTRASONIC DEVICES--MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHODS; HYPERTHERMIA TREATMENT PLANNING; RAYLEIGH-SOMMERFELD INTEGRAL; ULTRASONIC FIELDS COMPUTATION; ULTRASONIC PHASED ARRAYS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0024739554     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.31798     Document Type: Article

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