The effects of image degradation on ultrasound-guided HIFU

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 809-812

  Dahl, Jeremy J ^a   Trahey, Gregg E ^a,b   Pinton, Gianmarco F ^c  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); DEGRADATION; DEPOSITION; RADAR CLUTTER; REVERBERATION; ULTRASONICS;

FOCAL INTENSITY; FULL-WAVE SIMULATIONS; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HOMOGENEOUS TISSUES; IMAGE DEGRADATION; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; PHASE ABERRATIONS; ULTRASOUND GUIDED;

ABERRATIONS;

EID: 80054074254     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2010.5935951     Document Type: Conference Paper

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