Miniaturized ultrasound arrays for interstitial ablation and imaging

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1539-1550

  Makin, Inder Raj S ^a,b   Mast, T Douglas ^a   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)

Author keywords

Arrays; Lesion monitoring; Liver cancer; Surgery; Thermal ablation; Ultrasound therapy

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TISSUE; TUMORS;

LESION MONITORING; LIVER CANCER; THERMAL ABLATION;

ULTRASONICS;

ELEMENT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BALLOON; CONTRAST; DENSITY; ELECTRONICS; ENERGY; EX VIVO STUDY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERSTITIUM; LIVER; MAMMAL; MECHANICAL PROBE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOFT TISSUE; TISSUE MICROARRAY; TREATMENT PLANNING; ULTRASOUND;

CATHETER ABLATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MINIATURIZATION; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 27744512095     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2005.07.008     Document Type: Article

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