Development of high intensity focused ultrasound simulator for large-scale computing

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 65, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 43-66

  Okita, Kohei ^a   Ono, Kenji ^a   Takagi, Shu ^b   Matsumoto, Yoichiro ^b  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Finite difference time domain (FDTD); High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU); Numerical simulation; Parallel computing; Signed distance function; Therapeutic ultrasound

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PARALLEL COMPUTING; SIGNED DISTANCE FUNCTION; THERAPEUTIC ULTRASOUND;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EQUATIONS OF STATE; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FOCUSING; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; SIMULATORS; ULTRASONIC TESTING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 78650355169     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.2470     Document Type: Article

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