Real-time monitoring transcranial sub-megahertz ultrasound thrombolysis with phased array scanner

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 1716-1719

  Kubota, Jun ^a   Ogihara, Makoto ^a   Azuma, Takashi ^a   Umemura, Shin Ichiro ^a   Sasaki, Akira ^a   Ando, Kazumi ^b   Shimizu, Jun ^b   Ishibashi, Toshihiro ^b   Tanifuji, Yasumasa ^b   Furuhata, Hiroshi ^b  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Color flow imaging; Doppler; Thrombolysis; Transcranial ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; DIAGNOSTIC PRODUCTS; DOPPLER EFFECT; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE (AIS); COLOR FLOW IMAGING; THROMBOLYSIS; TRANSCRANIAL ULTRASOUND;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 33847094604     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1603196     Document Type: Conference Paper

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