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Lithium niobate transducers for MRI-guided ultrasonic microsurgery

Kotopoulis et al., 2011

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9886324763572133409
Author
Kotopoulis S
Wang H
Cochran S
Postema M
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IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control

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Focused ultrasound surgery (FUS) is usually based on frequencies below 5 MHz-typically around 1 MHz. Although this allows good penetration into tissue, it limits the minimum lesion dimensions that can be achieved. In this study, we investigate devices to allow FUS at much …
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