Treatment of Rabbit Liver Cancer In Vivo Using Miniaturized Image-Ablate Ultrasound Arrays

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1609-1621

  Mast, T Douglas ^a   Barthe, Peter G ^b   Makin, Inder Raj S ^b   Slayton, Michael H ^b   Karunakaran, Chandra Priya ^a   Burgess, Mark T ^a   Alqadah, Amel ^a   Rudich, Steven M ^c  

^a University of Cincinnati   (United States)

^b Guided Therapy Systems/Ardent Sound   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrays; Image guidance; Liver cancer; Therapeutic ultrasound; Thermal ablation; VX2 rabbit tumor

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; IMAGE GUIDANCES; LIVER CANCER; THERAPEUTIC ULTRASOUND; THERMAL ABLATION;

BANDWIDTH; DISEASES; IMAGE QUALITY; PROBES; STAINLESS STEEL; TUBULAR STEEL STRUCTURES; TUMORS; ULTRASONICS;

ABLATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEAT LOSS; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIVER CANCER; LIVER HISTOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TREATMENT DURATION; TUMOR ABLATION; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

ANIMALS; CATHETER ABLATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; LIVER NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MINIATURIZATION; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; RABBITS; ULTRASONIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 80052877712     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2011.05.850     Document Type: Article

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