Transcranial Sound Field Characterization

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 973-980

  Hölscher, Thilo ^a   Wilkening, Wilko G ^b   Molkenstruck, Sven ^c   Voit, Heinz ^a   Koch, Christian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic window; Defocusing; Phase aberration; Sonothrombolysis; Sound field; Temporal bone; Transcranial

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; BONE; BRAIN; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ACOUSTIC WINDOW; DEFOCUSING; PHASE ABERRATION; SONOTHROMBOLYSIS; TEMPORAL BONES; TRANSCRANIAL;

NEUROLOGY;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CADAVER; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; TEMPORAL BONE;

ACOUSTICS; AGED; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TEMPORAL BONE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 43849099679     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2007.11.016     Document Type: Article

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