Image-guided Ex vivo liver ablation by unfocused ultrasound using passive cavitation detection

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6440, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Salgaonkar, Vasant A ^a   Karunakaran, Chandra Priya ^a   Besse, John A ^a   Heinlein, Grace ^a   Datta, Saurabh ^a   Holland, Christy K ^a   Mast, T Douglas ^a  

^a 705 Engineering Research Center

Author keywords

Cavitation; Logistic regression; Monitoring; Statistical modeling; Temperature; Ultrasound ablation

Indexed keywords

CAVITATION; TRANSDUCERS; TUMORS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

LOGISTIC REGRESSION; STATISTICAL MODELING; ULTRASOUND ABLATION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 34548244974     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.701029     Document Type: Conference Paper

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