Mechanical bioeffects of pulsed high intensity focused ultrasound on a simple neural model

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 4274-4283

  Wahab, Radia Abdul ^a,b   Choi, Mina ^a,b   Liu, Yunbo ^b   Krauthamer, Victor ^b   Zderic, Vesna ^a   Myers, Matthew R ^b  

^a The George Washington University   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR DEVICES AND RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

HIFU; nerve; traumatic brain injury; ultrasound bioeffects

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS; RADIATION EFFECTS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

BIO-EFFECTS; HIFU; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; LINEARLY PROPORTIONAL; NERVE; POSSIBLE MECHANISMS; PREDICTIVE MODELING; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES;

VELOCITY;

EID: 84864227189     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4729712     Document Type: Article

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