An image-guided high intensity focused ultrasound device for uterine fibroids treatment

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2611-2620

  Chan, Arthur H ^a,b   Fujimoto, Victor Y ^c   Moore, Donald E ^b   Martin, Roy W ^a,b   Vaezy, Shahram ^a,b  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

High intensity focused ultrasound; Ultrasound; Ultrasound guided surgery; Uterine fibroids; Uterine tumor treatment

Indexed keywords

CELL DEATH; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCERS; TUMORS; ULTRASONICS;

ABDOMINAL ULTRASOUND IMAGES; ANATOMICAL CONSTRAINT; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND DEVICES; IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY; TUMOR TREATMENT; ULTRASOUND GUIDED; UTERINE FIBROIDS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVICE; ERGONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; THERMAL INJURY; TISSUE NECROSIS; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; UTERUS MYOMA; ADULT; ANATOMY; ANIMAL; BIOENGINEERING; BREAST; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; LEIOMYOMA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UTERUS; UTERUS CANCER; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALIA;

ADULT; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; ANIMALS; BREAST; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; LEIOMYOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS; TURKEY; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; UTERINE NEOPLASMS; UTERUS;

EID: 0036852570     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1513990     Document Type: Article

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