A real-time measure of cavitation induced tissue disruption by ultrasound imaging backscatter reduction

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 569-575

  Hall, Timothy L ^b   Fowlkes, J Brian ^a,b   Cain, Charles A ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TISSUE PARENCHYMA; ULTRASOUND CAVITATION; ULTRASOUND PULSES; ULTRASOUND SURGERY;

BACKSCATTERING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ULTRASONICS;

TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; IN VITRO STUDY; LIVER; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY; SWINE; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SWINE; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33947622614     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.279     Document Type: Article

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