Development and characterization of a tissue-mimicking material for high-intensity focused ultrasound

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1397-1405

  King, Randy L ^a   Liu, Yunbo ^b   Maruvada, Subha ^b   Herman, Bruce A ^b   Wear, Keith A ^b   Harris, Gerald R ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR DEVICES AND RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM OXIDE PARTICLES; ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; BACKSCATTER SIGNALS; DIFFERENT SIZES; GELLAN GUM; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROGEL MATRIX; LINEAR FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; MAMMALIAN TISSUES; MEAN VALUES; NON-LINEARITY PARAMETER; NUMERICAL MODELS; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SOFT TISSUE; TEMPERATURE ELEVATION; THERMAL CHARACTERIZATION; TISSUE-MIMICKING MATERIALS; ULTRASONIC PROPERTIES;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; BACKSCATTERING; HISTOLOGY; MAMMALS; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL; GELLAN;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; HEAT; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD;

ACOUSTICS; ALUMINUM OXIDE; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; HIGH-INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ABLATION; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 79960507037     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2011.1959     Document Type: Article

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