A Theoretical Study of Inertial Cavitation from Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Imaging and Implications for the Mechanical Index

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 472-485

  Church, Charles C ^a   Labuda, Cecille ^a   Nightingale, Kathryn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic radiation force imaging; ARFI; Bio effects; Cavitation threshold; Inertial cavitation; Mechanical index; MI

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC RADIATORS; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ACOUSTIC WAVES; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; HISTOLOGY; RADIATION EFFECTS; TISSUE;

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE; ARFI; BIO-EFFECTS; CAVITATION THRESHOLDS; INERTIAL CAVITATION; MECHANICAL INDEXES; MI;

CAVITATION;

ACOUSTIC FREQUENCY; ACOUSTIC PULSE DURATION; ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE IMAGING; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BUBBLE RADIUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; INERTIAL CAVITATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MECHANICAL INDEX; PREDICTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SAFETY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; THEORETICAL STUDY; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; KIDNEY; LIVER; PROCEDURES; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKIN; THEORETICAL MODEL; URINE;

WATER;

BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; BLOOD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; KIDNEY; LIVER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SKIN; URINE; WATER;

EID: 84922592852     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2014.09.012     Document Type: Article

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