Heating and coagulation volume obtained with high-intensity focused ultrasound therapy: Comparison of perflutren protein-type A microspheres and MRX-133 in rabbits

Radiology

Volumn 237, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 132-136

  Takegami, Kenji ^a   Kaneko, Yukio ^a   Watanabe, Toshiaki ^a   Watanabe, Shunsuke ^a   Maruyama, Toshiyuki ^a   Matsumoto, Yoichiro ^a   Nagawa, Hirokazu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; FS 069; MICROSPHERE; MRX 133; PERFLUTREN; POLYACRYLAMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; HEATING; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; JAPAN; LIVER; MALE; MICROBUBBLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; TISSUE NECROSIS;

ANIMALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FLUOROCARBONS; LIVER; MALE; MICROSPHERES; RABBITS; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 25144487671     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2371041430     Document Type: Article

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