Phase-shift perfluorocarbon agents enhance high intensity focused ultrasound thermal delivery with reduced near-field heating

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1473-1482

  Phillips, Linsey C ^a   Puett, Connor ^a   Sheeran, Paul S ^a   Dayton, Paul A ^a   Wilson Miller, G ^b   Matsunaga, Terry O ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECAFLUOROBUTANE; FOCUSED ULTRASOUND SURGERY; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; NEGATIVE PRESSURES; PERFLUOROCARBONS; SURFACE HEATING; THERMAL DEPOSITION; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT;

BLOOD VESSELS; HEATING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; ULTRASONIC TESTING;

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS);

ACRYLAMIDE DERIVATIVE; ALBUMINOID; CONTRAST MEDIUM; FLUOROCARBON; NANOPARTICLE; PERFLUBUTANE; PERFLUOROPENTANE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT; HEAT; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBUBBLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESSURE; SOUND; THERMOGRAPHY; TIME; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND; VOLATILIZATION;

ACRYLAMIDES; ALBUMINS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FLUOROCARBONS; HIGH-INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ABLATION; HOT TEMPERATURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROBUBBLES; NANOPARTICLES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PRESSURE; SONICATION; SOUND; THERMOGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 84879476932     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4812866     Document Type: Article

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