Tissue expansion imaging for tissue coagulation mapping during high intensity focused ultrasound therapy

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 1770-1773

  Azuma, Takashi ^a   Sasaki, Kazuaki ^a   Kawabata, Ken Ichi ^b   Umemura, Shin Ichiro ^a  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B-MODE IMAGES; B-MODE IMAGING; BOILING TEMPERATURE; DENATURED PROTEINS; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; IN-VITRO; RADIATION FORCES; RADIO FREQUENCIES; REAL TIME MONITORING; SPEED OF SOUNDS; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; THERAPY MONITORING; THERMAL CHANGES; TIME COURSE; TIME SHIFTS; TISSUE COAGULATION; TISSUE TEMPERATURES; ULTRASONIC INTENSITY;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; BOILING POINT; COAGULATION; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC TESTING; ULTRASONICS;

THERMAL EXPANSION;

EID: 66249140186     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2006.445     Document Type: Conference Paper

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