Ultrasonic coagulation of large tissue region by generating multiple cavitation clouds in direction perpendicular to ultrasound propagation

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 50, Issue 7 PART 2, 2011, Pages

  Inaba, Yuta ^a   Tatsuya, Moriyama ^a   Yoshizawa, Shin ^a   Umemura, Shin Ichiro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CAVITATIONS; CAVITATION CLOUDS; FOCAL REGIONS; FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; LARGE REGIONS; LOW-INTENSITY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THERAPEUTIC MODALITY; TISSUE HEATING; TREATMENT TIME; ULTRASONIC COAGULATION; ULTRASOUND PROPAGATION; ULTRASOUND PULSE;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; CLOUDS; COAGULATION; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC PROPAGATION; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS;

CAVITATION;

EID: 79960566409     PISSN: 00214922     EISSN: 13474065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.50.07HF13     Document Type: Article

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