Instantaneous Frequency-Based Ultrasonic Temperature Estimation During Focused Ultrasound Thermal Therapy

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1647-1661

  Liu, Hao Li ^a   Li, Meng Lin ^b   Shih, Tzu Ching ^c   Huang, Sheng Min ^a   Lu, I Yeh ^a   Lin, Deng Yn ^d   Lin, Shi Ming ^d   Ju, Kuen Cheng ^e  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^e I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Focused ultrasound; Instantaneous frequency; Ultrasound temperature estimation; Zero crossing

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE METHODS; BACKSCATTERED SIGNAL; BEAM DIRECTION; CROSS CORRELATION TECHNIQUES; CROSS CORRELATIONS; CROSS-CORRELATION PROCESSING; DETECTION ABILITY; DOSE CONTROL; ECHO TIME; EX-VIVO; FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HEATING EXPERIMENT; HEATING SOURCE; INSTANTANEOUS FREQUENCY; PORCINE MUSCLES; RADIO-FREQUENCY DATUM; RF SIGNAL; SOUND SPEED; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE ESTIMATION; TEMPERATURE MONITORING; TEMPERATURE RANGE; THERMAL THERAPIES; TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOM; ULTRASOUND TEMPERATURE ESTIMATION; ZERO CROSSING;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT; ESTIMATION; HEATING; IMAGE SENSORS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL EFFECTS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EX VIVO STUDY; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SWINE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; HIGH-INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ABLATION; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 70349220805     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2009.05.004     Document Type: Article

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