Effects of parameter errors in the simulation of transcranial focused ultrasound

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 37-45

  Vaughan, Timothy E ^a   Hynynen, Kullervo ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERRORS; SURGERY;

OPTIMAL SONICATING FREQUENCY;

ULTRASONICS;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY; SIMULATION; SKULL; SOUND; VELOCITY;

BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKULL; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036144930     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/47/1/303     Document Type: Article

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