Single-element focused ultrasound transducer method for harmonic motion imaging

Ultrasonic Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 144-158

  Maleke, Caroline ^a   Pernot, Mathieu ^a   Konofagou, Elisa E ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Amplitude modulated; Displacement; FUS; Harmonic motion imaging; HIFU; Monitoring; Oscillatory; Radiation force

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ACOUSTIC FIELDS; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; MONITORING; RADIATION; STIFFNESS; TISSUE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC SCATTERING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

AMPLITUDE MODULATED; DISPLACEMENT; HARMONIC MOTION IMAGING; HIFU; OSCILLATORY; RADIATION FORCES;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EX VIVO STUDY; FORCE; HARMONIC MOTION IMAGING; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIVER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; SIMULATION; SWINE; TECHNIQUE; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

EID: 33751571507     PISSN: 01617346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016173460602800302     Document Type: Article

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