Color amplitude imaging: Preliminary results using vascular sonographic contrast agents

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 127-134

  Goldberg, Barry B ^a   Merton, Daniel A ^a,b   Forsberg, Flemming ^a   Liu, Ji Bin ^a   Rawool, Nandkumar ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Department of Radiology   (United States)

Author keywords

Color amplitude imaging; Color Doppler imaging; Contrast agents, sonographic

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; SIGNAL DETECTION; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 0030028265     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.1996.15.2.127     Document Type: Article

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