Liver hemostasis using high-intensity fo
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Shahram Vaezy; Roy Martin; Udo Schmiedl; Michael Caps; Shari Taylor; Kirk Beach;
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Article
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1997
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Liver hemorrhage, the major cause of death in hepatic trauma, is notoriously difficult to control. We report on the use of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) to arrest the bleeding from incisions made in rabbit livers. A HIFU transducer, with a spherically curved aperture of 6.34 cm' area, a f