Synergistic ablation of liver tissue and liver cancer cells with high-intensity focused ultrasound and ethanol

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1869-1881

  Hoang, Nguyen H ^a   Murad, Hakm Y ^a   Ratnayaka, Sithira H ^a   Chen, Chong ^a   Khismatullin, Damir B ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Acoustic Streaming; Cavitation; Ethanol; High intensity focused ultrasound; Liver cancer; Sonoporation

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ACOUSTIC STREAMING; CAVITATION; CELL MEMBRANES; CYTOLOGY; DISEASES; ETHANOL; HISTOLOGY; THERMOCOUPLES; ULTRASONICS;

CAVITATION BUBBLE; CAVITATION THRESHOLDS; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; LIVER CANCER CELLS; LIVER CANCERS; SONOPORATION; SYNERGISTIC EFFECT; TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOM;

TISSUE;

ALCOHOL; SOLVENT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EX VIVO STUDY; HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA CELL LINE; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CANCER; LIVER CELL MEMBRANE; LUNG CAVITATION; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERAPY EFFECT; TUMOR CELL DESTRUCTION; ANIMAL; HEAT; HEPG2 CELL LINE; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES; SWINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ETHANOL; HEP G2 CELLS; HIGH-INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ABLATION; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SOLVENTS; SWINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84902081623     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2014.02.026     Document Type: Article

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