Minimally-invasive ultrasound thermal therapy with MR thermal monitoring and guidance

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4247, Issue , 2001, Pages 166-170

  Diederich, C J ^a   Stafford, R J ^a   Price, R E ^a   Nau, W H ^a   Tyre�us, P D ^a   Rivera, B ^a   Schomer, D ^a   Olsson, L ^a   Hazle, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Canine tumor; Interstitial; Non invasive monitoring; Thermal therapy; Transurethral; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DOSIMETRY; HISTOLOGY; INFRARED IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ULTRASOUND THERMAL THERAPY;

NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 0034866275     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.427856     Document Type: Article

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