Ultrashort echo-time MRI versus CT for skull aberration correction in MR-guided transcranial focused ultrasound: In vitro comparison on human calvaria

Medical Physics

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2223-2233

  Miller, G Wilson ^a,b   Eames, Matthew ^c   Snell, John ^d   Aubry, Jean François ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

^c Focused Ultrasound Foundation   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^e INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

bone segmentation; skull aberration correction; transcranial MR guided focused ultrasound; ultrashort echo time (UTE) MRI

Indexed keywords

BONE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS; PIXELS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ABERRATION CORRECTION; BONE SEGMENTATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; SKULL ABERRATION CORRECTION; TEMPERATURE RISE; TRANSCRANIAL; TRANSCRANIAL MR-GUIDED FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; ULTRASHORT ECHO TIME; ULTRASHORT ECHO TIME MRI;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALVARIA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EX VIVO STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROGEL; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOMETRY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE GUIDED FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; ULTRASHORT ECHO TIME MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICES; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGING PHANTOM; INTERVENTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; SKULL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

UTE;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, INTERVENTIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SKULL; TEMPERATURE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 84927723585     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: 24734209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4916656     Document Type: Article

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