High intensity focused ultrasound with large aperture transducers: A MRI based focal point correction for tissue heterogeneity

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1936-1945

  Mougenot, Charles ^a,b   Tillander, Matti ^a   Koskela, Julius ^a   Köhler, Max O ^a   Moonen, Chrit ^b,c   Ries, Mario ^b,c  

^a PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

high intensity focused ultrasound; MRI; refocusing; tissue heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

CORRELATION FACTORS; HETEROGENEOUS TISSUES; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; PHASE ABERRATIONS; PHASE CORRECTIONS; PHASED ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; REFOCUSING; TISSUE HETEROGENEITY;

TISSUE;

EID: 84861601351     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3693051     Document Type: Article

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