Impact of cavitation on lesion formation induced by high intensity focused ultrasound

Fan Pengfei¹, Jie Yu¹, Yang Xin¹, Tu Juan^{1, †}, Guo Xiasheng¹, Huang Pintong², Zhang Dong^{1, 3, ‡}

(color online) Longitudinal cross-section images of the lesions in liver samples exposed to HIFU with the fixed pulse length 2000 cycles and varied acoustic pressures: (a) 7.5 MPa, (b) 8.75 MPa, and (c) 9.92 MPa.