Non-invasive thrombolysis induced by pulsed cavitation ultrasound therapy

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1167-1170

  Maxwell, Adam D ^a   Cain, Charles A ^a   Gurm, Hitinder S ^b   Fowlkes, J Brian ^a,b   Xu, Zhen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Department of Internal Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Histotripsy; Thrombolysis; Tissue ablation

Indexed keywords

BREAK DOWN; BROKEN DOWN; CAVITATION BUBBLE; CAVITATION CLOUDS; CONTROLLED CAVITATIONS; COULTER COUNTERS; CYCLE PULSE; DEBRIS SIZE DISTRIBUTION; FILTER PAPERS; FOCUSED TRANSDUCER; HISTOTRIPSY; IN-VITRO; NEGATIVE PRESSURES; NON-INVASIVE; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCIES; SOFT TISSUE; THROMBOLYSIS; THROMBOLYTIC; TISSUE ABLATION; ULTRASOUND IMAGING TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASOUND PULSE; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

ABLATION; ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC WAVES; CAVITATION; DEBRIS; LASER TISSUE INTERACTION; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 67649376301     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2008.0281     Document Type: Conference Paper

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