High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) ablation using the frequency sweeping excitation

• Main Author: Wang, Mingjun
• Other Authors: Zhou Yufeng
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/69935
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is emerging as an effective and noninvasive therapeutic modality for cancer/tumor treatment with the increasing interests and acceptance. With this technique, sufficiently high ultrasound energy is brought into a tight focus, generating the well-controlled ti...