A real-time controller for sustaining thermally relevant acoustic cavitation during ultrasound therapy

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2685-2694

  Hockham, Natalie ^a   Coussios, Constantin C ^a   Arora, Manish ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CAVITATIONS; ACOUSTIC ENERGY; ADAPTIVE CONTROLLERS; AGAR GEL; BUBBLE-BUBBLE INTERACTION; CAVITATION CONTROL; COMBINED EFFECT; FOCAL REGIONS; HEAT DEPOSITION; HIFU THERAPY; HIFU TRANSDUCERS; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; INERTIAL CAVITATION; INERTIAL CAVITATION ACTIVITY; INERTIAL CAVITATION THRESHOLD; INTEGRATED PASSIVES; NOVEL METHODS; REAL-TIME CONTROLLERS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SOFT TISSUE; TEMPERATURE RISE; TISSUE-MIMICKING MATERIALS; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; VISCO-ELASTIC;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ALGAE; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CONTROLLERS; DISSOLUTION; FOCUSING; PASSIVE NETWORKS; POLYSACCHARIDES; ULTRASONICS;

CAVITATION;

AGAR;

ARTICLE; HEAT; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBUBBLE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AGAR; HIGH-INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ABLATION; HOT TEMPERATURE; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MICROBUBBLES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 78650403084     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2010.1742     Document Type: Article

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