Prevention of post-focal thermal damage by formation of bubbles at the focus during high intensity focused ultrasound therapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 4292-4299

  Zderic, Vesna ^a   Foley, Jessica ^b   Luo, Wenbo ^b   Vaezy, Shahram ^b  

^a George Washington University   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Boiling; Bubbles; Cavitation; Focused ultrasound; HIFU; Reflection; Safety considerations; Scattering; Thermal damage; Tissue air interface

Indexed keywords

BOILING LIQUIDS; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CAVITATION; MUSCLE; REFLECTION; SCATTERING; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

AIR INTERFACE; FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HIFU; SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS; THERMAL DAMAGE;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST; CAMERA; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; INTESTINE; LIVER; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL INJURY; THIGH; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 52949115260     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2975149     Document Type: Article

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