Wideband transducers for improved control of interstitial heating patterns

Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages 1235-1238

  Chopra, Rajiv ^a   Luginbuhl, Chris ^a   Stuart Foster, F ^a   Bronskill, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RADIANT HEATING; THERMAL EFFECTS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

INTERSTITIAL HEATING PATTERNS; MULTILAYERED TRANSDUCERS;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0034579301     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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