Size Measurement of Tissue Debris Particles Generated from Pulsed Ultrasound Cavitational Therapy - Histotripsy

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 245-255

  Xu, Zhen ^a   Fan, Zhenzhen ^a   Hall, Timothy L ^a   Winterroth, Frank ^a   Fowlkes, J Brian ^a,b   Cain, Charles A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cavitation; Embolization; Histotripsy; Pulsed ultrasound; Therapeutic ultrasound; Tissue fractionation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PARAMETERS; ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; DEBRIS PARTICLES; EMBOLIZATION; FILTER SIZES; HIGH INTENSITY ULTRASOUNDS; HISTOTRIPSY; NEGATIVE PRESSURES; PARAMETER SETS; PARTICLE SIZING SYSTEMS; PULSE DURATIONS; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCIES; PULSED ULTRASOUND; SET-UPS; SINGLE ELEMENTS; THERAPEUTIC ULTRASOUND; TISSUE REMOVALS; TUMOR ABLATIONS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; CAVITATION; DEBRIS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PARTICLE SIZE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS;

TISSUE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM; FRACTIONATION; HEART ATRIUM; HISTOTRIPSY; KIDNEY; LIVER; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICAL MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; TRANSDUCER;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; EMBOLISM; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; KIDNEY; LITHOTRIPSY; LIVER; MODELS, ANIMAL; PARTICLE SIZE; RISK; SWINE; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 58249139338     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2008.09.002     Document Type: Article

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