A review of numerical and experimental compensation techniques for skull-induced phase aberrations in transcranial focused ultrasound

International Journal of Hyperthermia

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 36-46

  Kyriakou, Adamos ^a,b   Neufeld, Esra ^a   Werner, Beat ^c   Paulides, Margarethus Marius ^d   Szekely, Gabor ^b   Kuster, Niels ^a,b  

^a FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN SOCIETY IT IS   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^d ERASMUS MC CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aberration correction; High intensity focused ultrasound; Optimisation; Thermal ablation; Transcranial FUS

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEATING; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HUMAN; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SCALP; SIMULATION; SKULL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE GUIDED FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HIGH-INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ABLATION; HUMANS; SKULL; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84893405010     PISSN: 02656736     EISSN: 14645157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02656736.2013.861519     Document Type: Article

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