Multiple high-intensity focused ultrasound probes for kidney-tissue ablation

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1036-1040

  Häcker, Axel ^a   Chauhan, Sunita ^b   Peters, Kristina ^a   Hildenbrand, Ralf ^a   Marlinghaus, Ernst ^c   Alken, Peter ^a   Michel, Maurice Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c University Hospital Mannheim ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CERAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; KIDNEY PERFUSION; KIDNEY TISSUE ABLATION; LESION SIZE; MULTIPLE HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND PROBE; NONHUMAN; PIEZOELECTRICITY; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SWINE; TISSUE INJURY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ANIMALS; KIDNEY; MODELS, ANIMAL; SWINE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 27744541875     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2005.19.1036     Document Type: Article

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