Numerical simulation of ultrasound-thermotherapy combining nonlinear wave propagation with broadband soft-tissue absorption

Ultrasonics

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 693-696

  Ginter, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOCUSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONCOLOGY; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC ABSORPTION;

HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND (HIFU); ULTRASOUND (US) THERMOTHERAPHY;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; NEOPLASM; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; NEOPLASMS; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 0033624265     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-624X(00)00012-3     Document Type: Article

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