The effect of electronically steering a phased array ultrasound transducer on near-field tissue heating

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 4971-4981

  Payne, Allison ^a   Vyas, Urvi ^b   Todd, Nick ^a   De Bever, Joshua ^c   Christensen, Douglas A ^b   Parker, Dennis L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

magnetic resonance guided high intensity focused ultrasound; near field; phased array transducer; thermal modeling

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); COMMERCE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HEATING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PATIENT TREATMENT; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TRAJECTORIES; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; FINITE DIFFERENCE APPROXIMATIONS; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; NEAR FIELDS; PENNES' BIOHEAT TRANSFER EQUATION; PHASED ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; PHASED ARRAY ULTRASOUND; THERMAL MODEL;

TISSUE;

EID: 80052411071     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3618729     Document Type: Article

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