Developmental Impact and Lesion Maturation of Histotripsy-Mediated Non-Invasive Tissue Ablation in a Fetal Sheep Model

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1047-1055

  Kim, Yohan ^a   Fifer, Carlen G ^b   Gelehrter, Sarah K ^b   Owens, Gabe E ^b   Berman, Deborah R ^a   Vlaisavljevich, Eli ^a   Allen, Steven P ^a   Ladino Torres, Maria F ^b   Xu, Zhen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Histotripsy; Non invasive fetal therapy; Pulsed cavitational ultrasound; Therapeutic ultrasound

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PULSE REPETITION RATE; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL THERAPIES; FOCUSED TRANSDUCER; HISTOTRIPSY; NEGATIVE PRESSURES; POTENTIAL EFFECTS; THERAPEUTIC ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

LASER TISSUE INTERACTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETAL THERAPY; FETAL WELL BEING; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS KIDNEY; FETUS LIVER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HISTOTRIPSY FETAL TISSUE ABLATION; KIDNEY; NEWBORN; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; SHEEP; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

EID: 84877107865     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2012.12.014     Document Type: Article

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