Beam localization in HIFU temperature measurements using thermocouples, with application to cooling by large blood vessels

Ultrasonics

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 171-180

  Dasgupta, Subhashish ^a   Banerjee, Rupak K ^a   Hariharan, Prasanna ^b   Myers, Matthew R ^b  

^a 705 Engineering Research Center   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR DEVICES AND RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam positioning error; Blood flow cooling; HIFU; Thermal dose; Thermocouple artifacts

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC POWER; BEAM POSITIONING; BLOOD FLOW; CONVECTIVE COOLING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; EXPOSURE-TIME; FINE-WIRE THERMOCOUPLES; HIFU; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; LESION SIZE; LOCALIZATION METHOD; LOCALIZATION TECHNIQUE; POSITIONING ERROR; TARGET LOCATION; TEMPERATURE ELEVATION; TEMPERATURE RISE; THERMAL DOSE; THERMOCOUPLE JUNCTIONS; THERMOCOUPLE MEASUREMENTS; TISSUE PHANTOM; TRANSIENT TEMPERATURE; VESSEL WALLS; VISCOUS HEATING;

BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; COOLING; HEMODYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOMETERS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

THERMOCOUPLES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GEL; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GELS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TEMPERATURE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 78649322993     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2010.07.007     Document Type: Article

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