Catheter-based ultrasound devices and MR thermal monitoring for conformal prostate thermal therapy

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3664-3668

  Diederich, Chris J ^a   Nau, Will H ^a   Kinsey, Adam ^a   Ross, Tony ^a   Wootton, Jeff ^a   Juang, Titania ^a   Butts Pauly, Kim ^b   Rieke, Viola ^b   Chen, Jing ^b   Bouley, Donna M ^b   Sommer, Graham ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; APPLICATORS; CATHETERS; HEATING; INFRARED IMAGING; REAL TIME CONTROL; ROTATION; ULTRASONIC DEVICES;

IN-VIVO EXPERIMENTS; MR TEMPERATURE IMAGING; MR THERMAL IMAGING; PROSTATE CAPSULES; SEQUENTIAL ROTATIONS; THERMAL MONITORING; THERMAL THERAPIES; ULTRASOUND DEVICES;

UROLOGY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CATHETER ABLATION; CATHETERIZATION; DOG; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAT; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROSTATE; PROSTATE TUMOR; TEMPERATURE; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CATHETER ABLATION; CATHETERIZATION; DOGS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TEMPERATURE; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 61849135434     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4650002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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