Ultrasound Safety with Midfrequency Transcranial Sonothrombolysis: Preliminary Study on Normal Macaca Monkey Brain

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1040-1050

  Shimizu, Jun ^a   Fukuda, Takahiro ^a   Abe, Toshiaki ^a   Ogihara, Makoto ^b   Kubota, Jun ^b   Sasaki, Akira ^b   Azuma, Takashi ^b   Sasaki, Kazuaki ^c   Shimizu, Keiko ^d   Oishi, Takao ^e   Umemura, Shin ichiro ^f   Furuhata, Hiroshi ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Midfrequency; Primates; Safety; Sonothrombolysis; Transcranial; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE; AUTOMATIC SWITCHING; CAVITATION EFFECT; CONTINUOUS WAVEFORMS; CYNOMOLGUS MONKEYS; MECHANICAL INDEXES; MID-FREQUENCY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIMATES; RHESUS MONKEY; SONOTHROMBOLYSIS; TEMPORAL WINDOWS; THERAPEUTIC ULTRASOUND; THROMBOLYSIS; TISSUE DAMAGE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TRANSCRANIAL; ULTRA-SONICATION; ULTRASOUND BEAMS; ULTRASOUND INTENSITY; ULTRASOUND SAFETY;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; DAMAGE DETECTION; MAMMALS; SONICATION; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; TISSUE;

ULTRASONICS;

ALTEPLASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA MULATTA; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NONHUMAN; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL SONOTHROMBOLYSIS; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ANIMALS; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACACA; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 84860469845     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2012.02.009     Document Type: Article

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