The origins of nonlinear enhancement in ex vivo tissue during high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) ablation

Journal article

Thermal ablation by High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) is the only technique for noninvasive treatment of tumours, but suffers from a long treatment times and varied treatment outcomes. Knowledge of the nonlinear parameter B/A can resolve these by improving treatment planning, and correlation between enhanced nonlinear signals and the presence of HIFU lesions has the potential to monitor treatment acoustically in real-time. It remains unclear whether the nonlinear enhancement is due to ...

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Authors: Jackson, E; Cleveland, R; Coussios, C

• Journal: Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics
• Volume: 19
• Publication date: 2013-01-01
• DOI: 10.1121/1.4800011
• ISSN: 1939-800X
• Language: English