HIFU-Induced Cavitation and Heating in Ex Vivo Porcine Subcutaneous Fat

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 568-579

  Kyriakou, Zoe ^a   Corral Baques, Marc Ignasi ^b   Amat, Albert ^b   Coussios, Constantin C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Medical Research Department SOR Internacional SA   (Spain)

Author keywords

HIFU; Inertial cavitation; Noninvasive monitoring; Subcutaneous fat tissue; Thermal mechanism

Indexed keywords

HIFU; INERTIAL CAVITATION; NONINVASIVE MONITORING; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; THERMAL MECHANISM;

ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; FOCUSING; HEATING; NEEDLES; THERMOCOUPLES; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

CAVITATION;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EX VIVO STUDY; EXCISION; HEATING; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; SWINE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMAL EXPOSURE; THERMOMETRY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HIGH-INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ABLATION; RADIATION DOSAGE; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; SWINE;

EID: 79952737205     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2011.01.001     Document Type: Article

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