Dual-mode transducers for ultrasound imaging and thermal therapy

Ultrasonics

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 216-220

  Owen, N R ^a   Chapelon, J Y ^a,b   Bouchoux, G ^a   Berriet, R ^c   Fleury, G ^c   Lafon, C ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c IMASONIC SAS   (France)

Author keywords

Dual mode; Thermal therapy; Transducer; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

AXIAL IMAGING; BILE DUCTS; CANCER THERAPY; CONTINUOUS WAVE ULTRASOUND; DUAL MODES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH INTENSITY; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; IMAGING PERFORMANCE; IN-VIVO; INTERSTITIAL APPLICATIONS; LESION DEPTH; LINEAR ARRAYS; PIEZOCOMPOSITE MATERIALS; PLANNED TREATMENTS; PULSE ECHOES; PULSED ULTRASOUNDS; THERAPEUTIC BEAMS; THERAPEUTIC ULTRASOUND; THERMAL ABLATION; THERMAL THERAPIES; TISSUE ABLATIONS; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

ABLATION; ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; ACOUSTIC WAVES; BANDWIDTH; COAGULATION; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; LIVER; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONITORING; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; ULTRASONIC TESTING; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRONICS; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; LIVER; SWINE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; BILE DUCTS; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SWINE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 71549155273     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2009.08.009     Document Type: Article

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