Tissue ablation using high-intensity focused ultrasound in the fetal sheep model: Potential for fetal treatment

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 189, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 702-705

  Paek, Bettina W ^a   Vaezy, Shahram ^b   Fujimoto, Vic ^c   Bailey, Michael ^b   Albanese, Craig T ^d   Harrison, Michael R ^d   Farmer, Diana L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetus; High intensity focused ultrasound; Noninvasive; Sheep model; Tissue ablation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS HEART RATE; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; TISSUE NECROSIS; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0141525097     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/S0002-9378(03)00664-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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