Time-reversal transcranial ultrasound beam focusing using a k-space method

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 901-917

  Jing, Yun ^a   Meral, F Can ^b   Clement, Greg T ^b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION TIME; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; EX-VIVO; FOCAL POINTS; GRID POINTS; HUMAN SKULL; K-SPACE METHOD; POINT SOURCES; PRECISE FOCUSING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TIGHT FOCUSING; TIME-REVERSAL; TIME-REVERSED; TRANSCRANIAL ULTRASOUND; TREATMENT PLANNING; WAVE PROPAGATION SIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; IMAGE RESOLUTION; ULTRASONICS;

FOCUSING;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PRESSURE; RADIOGRAPHY; SKULL; TIME; ULTRASOUND;

HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PRESSURE; SKULL; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 84856929919     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/4/901     Document Type: Article

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