Transcranial ultrasonic therapy based on time reversal of acoustically induced cavitation bubble signature

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 134-144

  Gâteau, Jérôme ^a   Marsac, Laurent ^c   Pernot, Mathieu ^b   Aubry, Jean Francois ^b   Tanter, Mickaël ^b   Fink, Mathias ^b  

^a INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c SUPERSONIC IMAGINE   (France)

Author keywords

Acoustic beam steering; Acoustic cavitation; Adaptive arrays; Transcranial brain therapy

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC BEAMS; ACOUSTIC CAVITATIONS; ADAPTIVE ARRAYS; BRAIN THERAPY; TRANSCRANIAL;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; ACOUSTIC WAVES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HYDROPHONES; MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHY; QUANTUM THEORY; ULTRASONICS;

CAVITATION;

ACOUSTIC CAVITATION; ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GOLD STANDARD; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROBUBBLE; PHANTOM; SKULL; TRANSCRANIAL ULTRASOUND THERAPY; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MICROBUBBLES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PRESSURE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SKULL; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 76649103018     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2031816     Document Type: Article

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