500-Element ultrasound phased array system for noninvasive focal surgery of the brain: A preliminary rabbit study with ex vivo human skulls

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 100-107

  Hynynen, Kullervo ^a,c   Clement, Gregory T ^a   McDannold, Nathan ^a   Vykhodtseva, Natalia ^a   King, Randy ^a   White, P Jason ^a   Vitek, Shuki ^b   Jolesz, Ferenc A ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b INSIGHTEC LTD   (Israel)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Focused ultrasound; Minimally invasive surgery; MRI; Tissue ablation

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; BRAIN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LASER TISSUE INTERACTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUSCLE; SONICATION; SURGERY;

CONTRAST-ENHANCED; FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PEAK TEMPERATURES; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; TEMPERATURE ELEVATION; TISSUE ABLATIONS; ULTRASOUND PHASED ARRAYS;

ULTRASONICS;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; RABBIT; SKULL; THERMOMETRY; TISSUE INJURY; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 4644312297     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20118     Document Type: Article

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