Real-time monitoring of high-intensity focused ultrasound ablations with photoacoustic technique: An in vitro study

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 5345-5350

  Cui, Huizhong ^a   Yang, Xinmai ^a  

^a University of Kansas   (United States)

Author keywords

high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU); photoacoustic imaging (PAI); real time treatment monitoring; temperature; thermal dose

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; COAGULATION; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; SIGNAL DETECTION; TEMPERATURE; THERMOCOUPLES; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; PHOTO-ACOUSTIC IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC SIGNALS; PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; SIGNAL AMPLITUDE CHANGES; THERMAL DOSE; TREATMENT MONITORING;

TISSUE;

EID: 80053609753     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3638126     Document Type: Article

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