Relationship between the temperature and the acoustic nonlinearity parameter in biological tissues

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 49, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 2360-2363

  Lu, Ying ^a   Liu, Xiaozhou ^a   Gong, Xiufen ^a   Zhang, Dong ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acoustic nonlinearity parameter; HIFU; Noninvasive temperature estimation; Thermocouple; Ultrasound therapy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749651319     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/972004-194     Document Type: Article

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