Non-invasive transcranial ultrasound therapy guided by CT-scans

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 683-687

  Marquet, Fabrice ^a   Pernot, Mathieu ^a   Aubry, Jean Francois ^a   Montaldo, Gabriel ^a   Tanter, Mickael ^a   Fink, Mathias ^a  

^a INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HYDROPHONES; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; RADIOTHERAPY;

FINITE DIFFERENCES CODE; SKULL; TRANSCRANIAL FOCUSING;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; EVALUATION STUDY; HAPLORHINI; METHODOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HAPLORHINI; PILOT PROJECTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 34047101477     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259962     Document Type: Conference Paper

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