Ultrasonic determination of three-dimensional spatial and temporal thermal distribution for therapy monitoring

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Anand, Ajay ^a   Savéry, David ^a   Hall, Christopher S ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NECROTIC TISSUE; THERMAL THERAPIES; ULTRASOUND ABLATIONS; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

HEAT TREATMENT; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; RADIOTHERAPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 33947656393     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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