A clinically feasible treatment protocol for magnetic resonance-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound ablation in the liver

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 24-31

  Wijlemans, Joost W ^a   De Greef, Martijn ^a   Schubert, Gerald ^b   Bartels, Lambertus W ^c   Moonen, Chrit T W ^a   Van Den Bosch, Maurice A A J ^a   Ries, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

High intensity focused ultrasound ablation; Interventional; Liver neoplasms; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ABDOMINAL WALL; ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BURN; CELL VIABILITY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHEMA; EXPERIMENTAL PIG; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND DEVICE; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER; LIVER HISTOLOGY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE GUIDED HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY GATED IMAGING; SKIN INJURY; SPLEEN INJURY; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; THERMAL INJURY; THERMOMETRY; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; EVALUATION STUDY; INTERVENTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PIG; PROCEDURES; SURGERY;

ANIMALS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HIGH-INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ABLATION; LIVER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, INTERVENTIONAL; MODELS, ANIMAL; SWINE;

EID: 84925940575     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0000000000000091     Document Type: Article

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