Evaluation of unscanned-mode soft-tissue thermal index for rectangular sources and proposed new indices

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 965-972

  O'Brien Jr , William D ^a,b   Yang, Yan ^b   Simpson, Douglas G ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Output display standard; Rectangular sources; Thermal index

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; DIAGNOSIS; FREQUENCIES; HEAT TRANSFER; PRESSURE EFFECTS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE;

ACOUSTIC PRESSURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACOUSTICS (DA); THERMAL INDEX;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GEOMETRY; HEAT TRANSFER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL ANALYSIS;

CONNECTIVE TISSUE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TEMPERATURE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 4143091671     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2004.03.015     Document Type: Article

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