Transcranial passive acoustic mapping with hemispherical sparse arrays using CT-based skull-specific aberration corrections: A simulation study

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 4981-5005

  Jones, Ryan M ^a,b   O'Reilly, Meaghan A ^a   Hynynen, Kullervo ^a,b,c  

^a Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATION CORRECTION; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; MONITORING AND CONTROL; PASSIVE BEAMFORMING; REAL TIME MONITORING; RESOLUTION CAPABILITY; TRANSCRANIAL ULTRASOUND;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; MORPHOLOGY; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

IMAGE MATCHING;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; SKULL; ARTICLE; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84879959476     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/58/14/4981     Document Type: Article

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