Theoretical evaluation of moderately focused spherical transducers and multi-focus acoustic lens/transducer systems for ultrasound thermal therapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1603-1621

  Wu, Xia ^a   Sherar, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; LENSES; PATIENT TREATMENT; TUMORS;

THERMAL LESIONS;

ULTRASONICS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; THEORY; THICKNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TIME; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; ANIMAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIVER; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RAT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; LIVER; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUSCLES; RATS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; ULTRASONICS; ANIMALS; HUMANS;

EID: 0037035406     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/47/9/313     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Time-temperature analysis of cell killing of BHK cells heated at temperatures in the range of 43.5 °C to 57 °C
2. Treatment of localised prostate cancer with transrectal high intensity focused ultrasound
3. Effects of blood perfusion on the ablation of liver parenchyma with high-intensity focused ultrasound
4. The effect of various physical parameters on the size and shape of necrosed tissue volume during ultrasound surgery
5. Evaluation of accuracy of a theoretical model for predicting the necrosed tissue volume during focused ultrasound surgery
6. Dependence of ultrasonic attenuation and absorption in dog soft tissues on temperature and thermal dose
7. Optimization of thermal dose using switching mode patterns of a spherically shaped square element phased array
8. A 256-element ultrasonic phased array system for the treatment of large volumes of deep seated tissue
9. Arrhenius relationships from the molecule and cell to the clinic
10. Differential response of normal and tumour microcirculation to hyperthermia
11. Multiple-focus ultrasound phased-array pattern synthesis: Optimal driving-signal distributions for hyperthermia
12. Optimization of the intensity gain of multiple-focus phased-array heating patterns
13. Ultrasound surgery using multiple sonications treatment time considerations
14. Design and experimental verification of thin acoustic lenses for the coagulation of large tissue volumes
15. Ultrasound focal beam surgery
16. Ultrasound properties of liver tissue during heating
17. MR Imaging-guided focused ultrasound Surgery of fibroadenomas in the breast: A feasibility study
18. Problems associated with directly synthesized annular heating patterns
19. Modeling temperature gradients near large vessels in perfused tissues
20. Temperature dependent properties and ultrasound thermal therapy
21. Field conjugate acoustic lenses for Ultrasound Hyperthermia
22. Field conjugate acoustic lenses for ultrasound hyperthermia
23. Effects of pulsed ultrasound on ocular tissue
24. Theory of focusing radiators
25. Analysis of tissue and arterial blood temperature in the resting human forearm
26. Thermal dose determination in cancer therapy
27. The effect of hyperthermia on vascular function, ph, and cell survival
28. Focused extracorporeal pyrotherapy: Experimental study and feasibility in man
29. Preliminary results of a phase I dose escalation clinical trial using focused ultrasound in the treatment of localised tumours
30. Comparison of phased array strategies for ultrasound surgery
31. Thermal dose optimization for ultrasound tissue ablation
32. Changes in ultrasound properties of porcine kidney tissue during heating
33. High intensity focused ultrasound in the treatment of experimental liver cancer
34. Extracorporeal liver ablation using sonography-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound