Bulk ablation of soft tissue with intense ultrasound: Modeling and experiments

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 2715-2724

  Mast, T Douglas ^a,c   Makin, Inder Raj S ^a,b   Faidi, Waseem ^a   Runk, Megan M ^a   Barthe, Peter G ^b   Slayton, Michael H ^b  

^a ETHICON INC   (United States)

^b Guided Therapy Systems   (United States)

^c 705 Engineering Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HEAT TRANSFER; HEAT TREATMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ULTRASONICS;

SOFT TISSUES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL MODELS; TISSUE ABLATION EFFECTS;

TISSUE;

ABLATION DEPTH; ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BOILING POINT; BULK ABLATION; CANCER THERAPY; CONTINUOUS ROTATIONAL SCANNING METHOD; EXPERIMENT; FINITE DIFFERENCE; FRESNEL APPROXIMATION; HEAT ABSORPTION; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; LYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; PERFORMANCE; PERFUSION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOFT TISSUE; TECHNIQUE; TEMPERATURE; THRESHOLD ACOUSTIC POWER; ULTRASOUND; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLEEDING; CATTLE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; LIVER; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; SWINE; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

ANIMALS; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; CATTLE; HUMANS; LIVER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; SWINE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 26844558806     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2011157     Document Type: Article

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