Interstitial thermal ablation with a fast rotating dual-mode transducer

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1086-1095

  Bouchoux, Guillaume ^a,b,c   Owen, Neil R ^d   Chavrier, Françoise ^a,b   Berriet, Rémi ^c   Fleury, Gérard ^c   Chapelon, Jean Yves ^a,b   Lafon, Cyril ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c IMASONIC   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B-MODE IMAGES; B-MODE IMAGING; DUAL MODES; FIELD INTENSITY; IN-VITRO; INTERSTITIAL ULTRASOUND; MINIMALLY INVASIVE; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; REALTIME IMAGING; STRAIN IMAGING; THERMAL ABLATION; TIME-AVERAGED; TISSUE HEATING; TRANSDUCER SURFACE; TREATMENT MONITORING; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

ABLATION; APPLICATORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ROTATION; ULTRASONICS;

TRANSDUCERS;

ABLATION THERAPY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HEAT; INSTRUMENTATION; LIVER; METHODOLOGY; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SWINE; TRANSDUCER;

ABLATION TECHNIQUES; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HOT TEMPERATURE; LIVER; NECROSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SWINE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 77951898147     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2010.1520     Document Type: Article

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