Patterns of thermal deposition in the skull during transcranial focused ultrasound surgery

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1693-1706

  Connor, Christopher W ^a   Hynynen, Kullervo ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic beam focusing; Biomedical acoustics; Hyperthermia; Nonhomogeneous media

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RADIATORS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DEPOSITION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

SKULL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUES; THERMAL DEPOSITION;

SURGERY;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; ENERGY; HEATING; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PERFUSION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SCALP; SIMULATION; SKULL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL INJURY; THERMOMETRY; TRANSCRANIAL FOCUSED ULTRASOUND SURGERY; ULTRASOUND;

BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CADAVER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SKULL; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THERMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 4644228201     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2004.831516     Document Type: Article

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