Probability of Cavitation for Single Ultrasound Pulses Applied to Tissues and Tissue-Mimicking Materials

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 449-465

  Maxwell, Adam D ^a   Cain, Charles A ^a   Hall, Timothy L ^a   Fowlkes, J Brian ^a   Xu, Zhen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cavitation probability; Focused ultrasound therapy; Histotripsy; Inertial cavitation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; HIGH SPEED PHOTOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC ABSORPTION;

CAVITATION BUBBLE; DISTILLED WATER; EX-VIVO; FIBER-OPTIC HYDROPHONE; FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HIGH WATER CONTENT; HISTOTRIPSY; INERTIAL CAVITATION; INERTIAL CAVITATION THRESHOLD; NEGATIVE PRESSURE VALUE; NEGATIVE PRESSURES; PRESSURE AMPLITUDES; PRESSURE LEVEL; SIGMOID CURVES; SINGLE BUBBLES; SINGLE PULSE; STATISTICAL THRESHOLD; TISSUE-MIMICKING MATERIALS; TRANSPARENT MEDIA; ULTRASOUND PULSE; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; WAVE FORMS;

CAVITATION;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAVITATION PROBABILITY; DYNAMICS; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HISTOTRIPSY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INERTIAL CAVITATION; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 84873522670     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2012.09.004     Document Type: Article

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