Conformal thermal therapy using planar ultrasound transducers and adaptive closed-loop MR temperature control: Demonstration in gel phantoms and ex vivo tissues

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Tang, K ^a   Choy, V ^a   Chopra, R ^a,b   Bronskill, M J ^a,b  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; THERMOMETERS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

CONFORMAL THERMAL THERAPY; GEL PHANTOMS; MR TEMPERATURE; PLANAR ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS; TRANSURETHRAL ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EX VIVO STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; IMAGING SYSTEM; ISOTHERM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION APPLICATOR; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; THERMAL INJURY; THERMOMETRY; TISSUE SECTION; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; ANIMAL; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHEMISTRY; GEL; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROSTATE TUMOR; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TEMPERATURE; TRANSDUCER; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; TURKEY (BIRD); ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEEDBACK; GELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TEMPERATURE; TRANSDUCERS; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION OF PROSTATE; TURKEYS; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 34248205818     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/10/018     Document Type: Article

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