Noninvasive surgery of prostate tissue by high-intensity focused ultrasound

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1099-1110

  Sanghvi, Narendra T ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CAVITATION; CERAMIC MATERIALS; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; SURGERY; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA (BPH); HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND (HIFU); MATCHING LAYER TECHNOLOGY; MICROBUBBLE GENERATION; NONINVASIVE SURGERY; PROSTATE TISSUE; SCANNING TRANSRECTAL PROBE; ULTRASOUND VISUALIZATION;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

EID: 0030286862     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.542053     Document Type: Article

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