Simulation study on acoustic streaming and convective cooling in blood vessels during a high-intensity focused ultrasound thermal ablation

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1261-1270

  Solovchuk, Maxim A ^a   Sheu, Tony W H ^a   Lin, Win Li ^a   Kuo, Ihyuan ^b   Thiriet, Marc ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Acoustic streaming; Acoustics thermal fluid coupling; HIFU; Liver tumor; Navier Stokes equations

Indexed keywords

BIO-HEAT EQUATIONS; CONVECTIVE COOLING; COUPLING MODELS; HIFU; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; LIVER TUMOR; LIVER TUMORS; SIMULATION STUDIES; TEMPERATURE FIELD; THERMAL ABLATION; THERMAL LESION;

ABLATION; ACOUSTIC STREAMING; BLOOD; COOLING; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; TEMPERATURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TUMORS; ULTRASONICS; VISCOUS FLOW;

BLOOD VESSELS;

EID: 82955173095     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2011.09.023     Document Type: Article

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