Matthew D C Eames, Mercy Farnum, Mohamad Khaled, W Jeff Elias, Arik Hananel, John W Snell, Neal F Kassell, Jean-Francois Aubry
PURPOSE: In the ongoing endeavor of fine-tuning, the clinical application of transcranial MR-guided focused ultrasound (tcMRgFUS), ex-vivo studies wlkiith whole human skulls are of great use in improving the underlying technology guiding the accurate and precise thermal ablation of clinically relevant targets in the human skull. Described here are the designs, methods for fabrication, and notes on utility of three different ultrasound phantoms to be used for brain focused ultrasound research...
April 2015: Medical Physics