Real-time sonoelastography of hepatic thermal lesions in a swine model

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 4132-4141

  Zhang, Man ^a   Castaneda, Benjamin ^a   Christensen, Jared ^b   Saad, Wael ^b   Bylund, Kevin ^b   Hoyt, Kenneth ^a   Strang, John G ^a   Rubens, Deborah J ^a   Parker, Kevin J ^a  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coagulation necrosis; High intensity focused ultrasound; Liver; Radiofrequency ablation; Sonoelastography; Swine model; Thermal lesion

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; CELL DEATH; ELASTICITY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIVER; PATHOLOGY; TISSUE;

ELASTICITY DISTRIBUTIONS; EXTERNAL VIBRATIONS; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; RADIO-FREQUENCY ABLATION; SONOELASTOGRAPHY; THERMAL LESION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SONOELASTOGRAPHY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SCAN;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTOGRAPHY; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; IN VIVO STUDY; LIVER INJURY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SWINE; THERMAL INJURY;

SUIDAE; SUS;

EID: 50449095258     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2968939     Document Type: Article

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