The potential of transskull ultrasound therapy and surgery using the maximum available skull surface area

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 2519-2527

  Sun, Jie ^a   Hynynen, Kullervo ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN SURGERY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION FIELD; SKULL; THERMAL EXPOSURE; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SKULL; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 0033044247     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.426863     Document Type: Article

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