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Table 5 Experimental conditions related to the influence of neighboring pulses

From: Simulation of high-intensity focused ultrasound lesions in presence of boiling

 

Median cooling

Spacing along

Spacing along

Overlap

 

time (s)

x (mm)

y (mm)

(%)

4-s pulses

22

1.8

1.6

45

8-s pulses

39

4

3.5

19

12-s pulses

48

5

4.3

6.7

  1. The overlap is calculated based on elliptic representations of the lesions in the xy plane. It is calculated as the ratio between the area which is covered by at least two individual lesions and the area covered by the global lesion