MRI-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) system for thermal ablation of prostate cancer: Pre-clinical evaluation in canines

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7181, Issue , 2009, Pages

  McDannold, Nathan ^a   Ziso, Hadas ^b   Assif, Benny ^b   Hananel, Arik ^b   Vykhodtseva, Natalia ^a   Gretton, Peri ^b   Pilatou, Magdalini ^a   Haker, Steve ^a   Tempany, Clare ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b INSIGHTEC LTD   (Israel)

Author keywords

Focused ultrasound; Magnetic resonance imaging; Prostate; Thermal ablation

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST-ENHANCED; FOCAL SPOT; FOCAL VOLUME; FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HIGH ENERGY; MOTION TRACKING; MR TEMPERATURE IMAGING; PRE-CLINICAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CANCERS; PROSTATE GLANDS; PROTON RESONANCE FREQUENCY; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; THERMAL ABLATION; TISSUE DAMAGE;

ABLATION; ACOUSTIC WAVES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 65949116579     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.811178     Document Type: Conference Paper

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