Heating efficiency improvement by using a spherically-concaved sectored array in focused ultrasound thermal therapy

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 3807-3810

  Liu, H L ^a   Chen, H W ^a   Ju, K C ^b   Shih, T C ^c   Chen, W S ^d  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering ^*  (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTORTION (WAVES); HEATING; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; ULTRASONICS;

FOCAL BEAM DISTORTION; SINGLE SONICATION; THERMAL LESIONS; TUMOR TREATMENT;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; FUNCTIONS OF THE HEMIC, LYMPHATIC AND RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEMS; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; PRESSURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASOUND;

ACOUSTICS; BLOOD PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BODY TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS; PRESSURE; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 34047154584     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259317     Document Type: Conference Paper

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