Focusing of high-intensity ultrasound through the rib cage using a therapeutic random phased array

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 888-906

  Bobkova, Svetlana ^a   Gavrilov, Leonid ^b   Khokhlova, Vera ^a,c   Shaw, Adam ^d   Hand, Jeffrey ^e,f  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b NNAndreev Acoustics Institute   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bone; Diffraction; Focus; HIFU; Infrared camera; Modeling; Random phased array; Rib cage; Thermocouple; Ultrasound ablation

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; BONE; CAMERAS; FOCUSING; GEOMETRY; HEATING; TEMPERATURE INDICATING CAMERAS; THERMOCOUPLES; THERMOMETERS; ULTRASONICS;

HIFU; INFRA-RED CAMERAS; MODELING; RANDOM PHASED ARRAY; ULTRASOUND ABLATION;

EXPERIMENTS;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFRACTION; GEOMETRY; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; INFRARED RADIATION; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SWINE; TARGET ORGAN; THORAX; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; RIB; THORAX WALL; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RIBS; SWINE; THORACIC WALL; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 77953212956     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2010.03.007     Document Type: Article

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