SonoKnife: Feasibility of a line-focused ultrasound device for thermal ablation therapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 4372-4385

  Chen, Duo ^a   Xia, Rongmin ^a   Chen, Xin ^a   Shafirstein, Gal ^a   Corry, Peter M ^a   Griffin, Robert J ^a   Penagaricano, Jose A ^a   Tulunay Ugur, Ozlem E ^a   Moros, Eduardo G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

acoustic edge; focused ultrasound; line focus; SonoKnife; thermal ablation

Indexed keywords

PHANTOMS; TRANSDUCERS; TUMORS; ULTRASONIC SCATTERING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ACOUSTIC SIMULATIONS; DESIGN PARAMETERS; FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HEAD-AND-NECK TUMOR; LINE-FOCUS; SONOKNIFE; THERMAL ABLATION; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS;

ABLATION;

SUS;

EID: 79960267142     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3601017     Document Type: Article

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