In vivo MR acoustic radiation force imaging in the porcine liver

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 5081-5089

  Holbrook, Andrew B ^a,b   Ghanouni, Pejman ^a   Santos, Juan M ^c   Medan, Yoav ^d   Butts Pauly, Kim ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c HeartVista Inc   (United States)

^d INSIGHTEC LTD   (Israel)

Author keywords

liver ablation; MR acoustic radiation force imaging (MR ARFI); MR guided high intensity focused ultrasound (MRgHIFU)

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ACOUSTIC RADIATORS; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; BIOMECHANICS; CALIBRATION; LOCATION; MAMMALS; PHANTOMS; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRANSDUCERS;

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE; CALIBRATION PROTOCOLS; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; IN-VIVO EXPERIMENTS; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; NEW CALIBRATION SYSTEM; PHASED ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS;

ABLATION;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS;

EID: 80052412838     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3622610     Document Type: Article

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