An MR-compliant phased-array HIFU transducer with augmented steering range, dedicated to abdominal thermotherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3563-3582

  Auboiroux, Vincent ^a,b,c,d   Dumont, Erik ^c   Petrusca, Lorena ^d   Viallon, Magalie ^e   Salomir, Rares ^a,d,e  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c Cité de la Photonique   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^e GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS; COOLANT WATER; ELECTRIC POWER DENSITY; ELECTRONIC STEERING; EX-VIVO; HIFU TRANSDUCERS; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND DEVICES; IN-VIVO; LOW COSTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE COMPATIBILITIES; MR-THERMOMETRY; NARROW-BAND RESPONSE; NOVEL ARCHITECTURE; OPTIMUM EFFICIENCY; OUTPUT CHANNELS; PIEZOCERAMIC; PIEZOCERAMIC TRANSDUCER; PLASTIC SUPPORTS; RADIATION FORCES; RADIUS OF CURVATURE; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; RF GENERATORS; SPECTRAL MULTIPLEXING; SPHERICAL ARRAY; SUB-ARRAYS; THERMOTHERAPIES; UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES;

MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MULTIPLEXING; RAPID PROTOTYPING; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC TESTING;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

ABDOMEN; ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; INSTRUMENTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

ABDOMEN; ACOUSTICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HIGH-INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ABLATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 79958096340     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/12/008     Document Type: Article

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