Minimizing abdominal wall damage during high-intensity focused ultrasound ablation by inducing artificial ascites

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 674-679

  Wu, Chih Ching ^a,b   Chen, Wen Shiang ^b,c   Ho, Ming Chih ^c,d   Huang, Kai Wen ^c   Chen, Chiung Nien ^c,d   Yen, Jia Yush ^a   Lee, Po Huang ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ACOUSTIC WAVES; HEAT STORAGE; LIVER; ULTRASONICS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

ABDOMINAL CAVITY; ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (ASA); ASIAN COUNTRIES; CONTROL GROUP (CON); EXPERIMENTAL GROUP (EXPG); HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA (HCC); HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND (HIFU); INVASIVENESS; NEW ZEALAND; PERMANENT DAMAGE; TARGET TISSUES; TUMOR TREATMENT;

SONOCHEMISTRY;

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ABDOMINAL WALL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; LIVER; NONHUMAN; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PERITONEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TARGET ORGAN; THERMAL INJURY;

ABDOMEN; ANIMALS; ASCITES; RABBITS; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 47649091142     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2839907     Document Type: Article

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