Ultrasound phased arrays for prostate treatment

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 3055-3064

  Tan, Joseph S ^a   Frizzell, Leon A ^a   Sanghvi, Narendra ^b   Wu, Shih Jeh ^b   Seip, Ralf ^b   Kouzmanoff, Jeffrey T ^c  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b Focus Surgery Incorporated   (United States)

^c Labthcrmics Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYLINDRICAL ANTENNAS; GEOMETRY; PATIENT TREATMENT;

SPHERICAL ARRAYS;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ARTICLE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE DISEASE; TRANSDUCER; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROSTATIC DISEASES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 0034974925     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1373444     Document Type: Article

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