An ultrasound cylindrical phased array for deep heating in the breast: Theoretical design using heterogeneous models

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3201-3215

  Bakker, J F ^a   Paulides, M M ^a   Obdeijn, I M ^a   Van Rhoon, G C ^a   Van Dongen, K W A ^b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Faculty of Applied Sciences   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PERFUSION RATE; DESIGN PARAMETERS; HEAT CAPACITIES; HETEROGENEOUS MODELS; INTERFERENCE PATTERNS; LOCAL HETEROGENEITY; PHASED ARRAYS; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; TARGET REGIONS; TEMPERATURE PATTERNS; THEORETICAL DESIGN; THEORETICAL STUDY; THERMAL HETEROGENEITY; TISSUE PROPERTIES; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOURS; WAVE VELOCITY;

ABSORPTION; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; DESIGN; HYPERTHERMIA THERAPY; ONCOLOGY; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; SIMULATORS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; ULTRASONICS;

TUMORS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; CONDUCTANCE; ECHOGRAPHY; HEATING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; THORAX; TRANSDUCER; TREATMENT PLANNING; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 67650742061     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/10/016     Document Type: Article

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