The role of acoustic nonlinearity in tissue heating behind a rib cage using a high-intensity focused ultrasound phased array

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2537-2559

  Yuldashev, Petr V ^a,b   Shmeleva, Svetlana M ^a   Ilyin, Sergey A ^a   Sapozhnikov, Oleg A ^a,c   Gavrilov, Leonid R ^d   Khokhlova, Vera A ^a,c  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d NN Andreyev Acoustical Institute   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NONLINEARITY; BIO-HEAT EQUATIONS; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; MAXIMUM POWER OUTPUT; NONLINEAR PROPAGATION; RELATIVE EFFECTS; SPATIAL LOCALIZATION; WESTERVELT EQUATION;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SHOCK WAVES; ULTRASONICS;

TISSUE;

WATER;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; EQUIPMENT; HEAT; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; IMAGE QUALITY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RIB; SWINE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; HIGH-INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ABLATION; HOT TEMPERATURE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RIBS; SWINE; WATER;

EID: 84875964969     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/58/8/2537     Document Type: Article

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