Influence of the pressure field distribution in transcranial ultrasonic neurostimulation

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Younan, Youliana ^a   Deffieux, Thomas ^a   Larrat, Benoit ^a   Fink, Mathias ^a   Tanter, Mickael ^a   Aubry, Jean Francois ^a  

^a INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

in vivo; neuromodulation; neurostimulation; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; ANESTHESIOLOGY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELASTIC WAVES; EYE MOVEMENTS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; RATS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

IN-VIVO; LOW INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUNDS; MICROCOMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROSTIMULATION; PRESSURE FIELD DISTRIBUTIONS; ULTRASONIC STIMULATIONS; ULTRASOUND PROPAGATION;

REVERBERATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EYE MOVEMENT; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; LIMB MOVEMENT; MALE; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REFLEX; SOUND INTENSITY; TAIL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSCRANIAL ULTRASONIC NEUROSTIMULATION; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; VIBRISSA; ANIMAL; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; METHODOLOGY; PRESSURE; RADIOGRAPHY; SKULL; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; DEVICES; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CALIBRATION; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; PRESSURE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SKULL; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 84881637375     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4812423     Document Type: Article

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