Therapeutic US Applications for the Abdomen and Pelvis

Anne Sailer1, Pejman Ghanouni1, George R Schade1

  • 1From the Section of Interventional Radiology, Dept of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine, 333 Cedar St, PO Box 208042, Room TE-2, New Haven, CT 06520 (A.S., S.A.); Dept of Rad/Body MRI, Dept of Radiology, Stanford Univ, Lucas Ctr, Stanford, Calif (P.G.); Dept of Urology, Univ of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Wash (G.R.S., A.W.); Dept of Radiological Sciences, MRgFUS and Cardiovascular Imaging Unit, Sapienza Univ of Rome, School of Medicine, Rome, Italy (A.N.); Institut Khuab for Interventional Oncology, Comprehensive Tumor Ctr Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (J.V.J.); Dept of Interventional and Diagnostic Radiology, Univ of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calif (S.S.R.); Abdominal and Cross-Sectional Interventional Radiology, Dept of Radiology, Univ of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Mich (M.M.L.); Dept of Medical Imaging, Univ Health Network-Mount Sinai Hosp-Women's College Hosp, Univ of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (S.G.); Inst of Urology, Univ of Southern California-USC School of Medicine, Los Angeles, Calif (A.A.); and Dept of Radiology, Hosp of the Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa (K.M.S.).

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