Liver ablation guidance with acoustic radiation force impulse imaging: Challenges and opportunities

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 3785-3808

  Fahey, B J ^a   Hsu, S J ^a   Wolf, P D ^a   Nelson, R C ^b   Trahey, G E ^a,b  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ACOUSTIC RADIATORS; GROWTH KINETICS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MICROELECTRODES; SCANNING; TISSUE;

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE (ARFI); IN VITRO BOVINE TISSUES; RADIOFREQUENCY (RF) ABLATION PROCEDURES; THERMAL LESIONS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGING; LIVER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; THERMAL INJURY;

ANIMALS; CATHETER ABLATION; CATTLE; ELECTRODES; HEAT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SHEEP; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 33746501906     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/15/013     Document Type: Article

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