A magnetic resonance imaging, histological, and dose modeling comparison of focused ultrasound, radiofrequency, and Gamma Knife radiosurgery lesions in swine thalamus

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 307-317

  Elias, W Jeff ^a   Khaled, Mohamad ^a   Hilliard, Justin D ^a   Aubry, Jean Francois ^a,b   Frysinger, Robert C ^a   Sheehan, Jason P ^a   Wintermark, Max ^a   Lopes, Maria Beatriz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

Focused ultrasound; Functional neurosurgery; Gamma Knife; Radiation dose; Radiofrequency; Radiosurgery; Stereotactic radiosurgery; Thalamotomy; Thermal dose

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIECTOMY; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAMETERS; PIGLET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOFREQUENCY; SWINE; THALAMOTOMY; THALAMUS; THALAMUS LESION; THEORETICAL MODEL; THERMAL STIMULATION; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PULSED RADIOFREQUENCY TREATMENT; RADIOSURGERY; SWINE; THALAMUS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84881186921     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2013.5.JNS122327     Document Type: Article

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