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ArticleIEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control2010

Dual-mode IVUS catheter for intracranial image-guided hyperthermia: feasibility study.

Carl D Herickhoff, Gerald A Grant, Gavin W Britz, Stephen W Smith

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Article in IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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  3. An IVUS transducer for microbubble therapies.IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · 2014
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4 authors.

Carl D HerickhoffDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. carl.herickhoff@duke.edu
Gerald A Grant
Gavin W Britz
Stephen W Smith

Funding

3D Ultrasound Guidance of Interventional DevicesR01HL089507 · NHLBI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI SMITH, STEPHEN WILLIAM · 2008 to 2012
$2.8M
NHLBI NIH HHS HL089507NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL089507
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this study, we investigated the feasibility of modifying 3-Fr IVUS catheters in several designs to potentially achieve minimally-invasive, endovascular access for image-guided ultrasound hyperthermia treatment of tumors in the brain. Using a plane wave approximation, target frequencies of 8.7 and 3.5 MHz were considered optimal for heating at depths (tumor sizes) of 1 and 2.5 cm, respectively. First, a 3.5-Fr IVUS catheter with a 0.7-mm diameter transducer (30 MHz nominal frequency) was driven at 8.6 MHz. Second, for a low-frequency design, a 220-μm-thick, 0.35 x 0.35-mm PZT-4 transducer--driven at width-mode resonance of 3.85 MHz--replaced a 40-MHz element in a 3.5-Fr coronary imaging catheter. Third, a 5 x 0.5-mm PZT-4 transducer was evaluated as the largest aperture geometry possible for a flexible 3-Fr IVUS catheter. Beam plots and on-axis heating profiles were simulated for each aperture, and test transducers were fabricated. The electrical impedance, impulse response, frequency response, maximum intensity, and mechanical index were measured to assess performance. For the 5 x 0.5-mm transducer, this testing also included mechanically scanning and reconstructing an image of a 2.5-cm-diameter cyst phantom as a preliminary measure of imaging potential.

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Equipment DesignTransducersBrainCathetersComputer SimulationCystsFeasibility StudiesHumansHyperthermia, InducedModels, TheoreticalPhantoms, ImagingSurgery, Computer-AssistedUltrasonography, Interventional

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PMID21041144
PMCPMC3018697

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