Time-reversal focusing of therapeutic ultrasound on targeted microbubbles

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 17, 2009, Pages

  Couture, Olivier ^a,b   Aubry, Jean Fraņois ^a   Tanter, Mickael ^a,c   Fink, Mathias ^a  

^a INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

^b Fondation Pierre Gilles de Gennes ^*  (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNATURES; CELLULAR PROCESS; ENERGY DEPOSITIONS; GELATIN PHANTOMS; HIGH-INTENSITY ULTRASONIC; IN-VIVO; METASTATIC DISEASE; MICRO-BUBBLES; MOLECULAR MARKERS; PROOF OF CONCEPTS; TARGETED MICROBUBBLES; THERAPEUTIC ULTRASOUNDS; TIME-REVERSAL FOCUSING; TIME-REVERSAL PROCESSING; TIME-REVERSED;

ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 65449130447     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3126039     Document Type: Article

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