Model-based feasibility assessment and evaluation of prostate hyperthermia with a commercial MR-guided endorectal HIFU ablation array

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Salgaonkar, Vasant A ^a   Prakash, Punit ^b   Rieke, Viola ^a   Ozhinsky, Eugene ^a   Plata, Juan ^c   Kurhanewicz, John ^a   Hsu, I C ^a   Diederich, Chris J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Kansas State University   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

beamforming; endorectal ultrasound; hyperthermia; modeling; MR guided HIFU; phased array; simulation

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; BEAMFORMING; CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASES; HEATING; MODELS; PHANTOMS; SONICATION; TISSUE; UROLOGY;

3-D FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ENDORECTAL ULTRASOUND; HYPERTHERMIA; MR-GUIDED HIFU; PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SIMULATION; TISSUE EQUIVALENT PHANTOM; TISSUE-MIMICKING MATERIALS;

PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

ABLATION DEVICE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; DENSITY; EVALUATION STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; HEATING; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHANTOM; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CANCER; PUBIC BONE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SIMULATION; SOUND INTENSITY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTICS; DRUG EFFECT; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND;

ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HIGH-INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ABLATION; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TEMPERATURE; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 84896891468     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4866226     Document Type: Article

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