Standing-wave suppression for transcranial ultrasound by random modulation

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 203-205

  Tang, Sai Chun ^a   Clement, Gregory T ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Random frequency modulation; Standing wave suppression; Transcranial ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN THERAPY; CONTINUOUS WAVES; CW EXCITATION; CW OPERATION; EX-VIVO; FREQUENCY CONTENTS; HUMAN SKULL; LOW FREQUENCY; LOWER FREQUENCIES; RANDOM FREQUENCY; RANDOM FREQUENCY MODULATION; RANDOM MODULATION; SINGLE-FREQUENCY; STANDING WAVE; SWEPT-FREQUENCY; TRANSCRANIAL; TRANSCRANIAL ULTRASOUND; TUMOR ABLATION; ULTRASOUND FIELDS;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; PLASTICS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; ULTRASONICS; WAVES;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; EX VIVO STUDY; PHANTOM; RANDOMIZATION; SKULL; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL ULTRASOUND THERAPY; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SKULL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 76649127393     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2028653     Document Type: Article

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