A Dual Frequency Ultrasonic Probe for Medical Applications

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 294-300

  Saitoh, S ^a   Izumi, M ^a   Mine, Y ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; CERAMIC MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PROBES; RESONANCE; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

DOPPLER MODE; DUAL FREQUENCY RESONANCE; DUAL FREQUENCY ULTRASONIC PROBE;

ULTRASONIC DEVICES;

EID: 0029277683     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.365242     Document Type: Article

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