The feasibility of elastographic visualization of HIFU-induced thermal lesions in soft tissues. Image-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound.

abstract

• The potential for visualizing high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU)-induced thermal lesions in biological soft tissues in vitro using elastography was investigated. Thermal lesions were created in rabbit paraspinal skeletal muscle in vivo. The rabbits were sacrificed 60 h following the treatment and lesioned tissues were excised. The tissues were cast in a block of clear gel and elastographic images of the lesions were acquired. Gross pathology of the tissue samples confirmed the characteristics of the lesions.

authors

• Righetti, Raffaella

published proceedings

• Ultrasound Med Biol

altmetric score

• 3

author list (cited authors)

• Kallel, F., Stafford, R. J., Price, R. E., Righetti, R., Ophir, J., & Hazle, J. D.

citation count

• 106

complete list of authors

• Kallel, F||Stafford, RJ||Price, RE||Righetti, R||Ophir, J||Hazle, JD

publication date

• January 1999

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology  Journal

keywords

• Animals
• Elasticity
• Feasibility Studies
• Muscle, Skeletal
• Rabbits
• Soft Tissue Injuries
• Transducers
• Ultrasonics
• Ultrasonography

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/s0301-5629(98)00184-7

start page

• 641

end page

• 647

volume

• 25

issue

• 4

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0301-5629(98)00184-7