Noninvasive vasectomy using a focused ultrasound clip: Thermal measurements and simulations

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1453-1459

  Fried, Nathaniel M ^a   Sinelnikov, Yegor D ^b   Pant, Bharat B ^b   Roberts, William W ^a   Solomon, Stephen B ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Transurgical Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Temperatures; Ultrasound; Vas deferens; Vasectomy

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; COAGULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSIMETRY; HEAT TRANSFER; SKIN; TISSUE; TRANSDUCERS;

SKIN BURNS;

ULTRASONICS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BURN; CLIP; DOG; NONHUMAN; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; VASECTOMY;

ANIMALS; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BURNS; DOGS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; VAS DEFERENS; VASECTOMY;

EID: 0035201354     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.966604     Document Type: Article

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