Simulation of Intracranial Acoustic Fields in Clinical Trials of Sonothrombolysis

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1148-1158

  Baron, Cecile ^a   Aubry, Jean François ^a   Tanter, Mickael ^a   Meairs, Stephen ^b   Fink, Mathias ^a  

^a INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Numerical simulation; Safety; Sonothrombolysis; Stroke; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL SIMULATION; SAFETY; SONOTHROMBOLYSIS; STROKE; ULTRASOUND;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC WAVES; BRAIN; BRAIN MODELS; CAVITATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FAULT DETECTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC LOGIC DEVICES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION FIELD; SONOTHROMBOLYSIS; SOUND TRANSMISSION; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SONICATION; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 67649295513     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2008.11.014     Document Type: Article

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