Design and characterization of a laterally mounted phased-array transducer breast-specific MRgHIFU device with integrated 11-channel receiver array

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1552-1560

  Payne, A ^a   Merrill, R ^a   Minalga, E ^a   Vyas, U ^b   De Bever, J ^c   Todd, N ^a   Hadley, R ^a   Dumont, E ^d   Neumayer, L ^e   Christensen, D ^b   Roemer, R ^b   Parker, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c Image Guided Therapy Inc ^*  (United States)

^d Image Guided Therapy Inc   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

breast; high intensity focused ultrasound; MRI

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); LOCATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT TREATMENT; PHANTOMS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TRANSDUCERS; TUMORS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

BREAST; BREAST CANCER TREATMENT; FLEXIBLE POSITIONING; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; MECHANICAL POSITIONING; PHASED ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; PHASED ARRAY ULTRASOUND; RADIO FREQUENCY COILS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

SUS;

EID: 84857828621     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3685576     Document Type: Article

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