Investigation of the viscous heating artefact arising from the use of thermocouples in a focused ultrasound field

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 4759-4776

  Morris, Hugh ^a   Rivens, Ian ^a   Shaw, Adam ^b   Haar, Gail Ter ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEATING; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THIN FILM TRANSISTORS; ULTRASONICS;

DAMAGE MECHANISM; FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FIELDS; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; LESION FORMATION; THERAPEUTIC ULTRASOUND; THERMAL MODELLING; THIN FILM THERMOCOUPLE; ULTRASOUND FIELDS;

THERMOCOUPLES;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CONDUCTOR; COOLING; HEATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOMETRY; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 51849129996     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/17/020     Document Type: Article

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