HIFU focusing efficiency and a twin annular array source for prostate treatment

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1523-1533

  Christopher, Ted ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC POWER; FINITE-AMPLITUDE DISTORTION; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND (HIFU); PROSTATE TREATMENT;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

MEDICAL PROBLEMS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 27644552171     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2005.1516025     Document Type: Article

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