On the feasibility of real-time, in vivo harmonic imaging with proteinaceous microspheres

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 853-860

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

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal studies; Contrast agents (FS069); Doppler sonography; Gray scale sonography; Harmonic imaging

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DOPPLER EFFECT; HEMODYNAMICS; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

DOPPLER SONOGRAPHY; HARMONIC IMAGING; PROTEINACEOUS MICROSPHERES;

ACOUSTIC IMAGING;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; MICROSPHERE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOG; GRAY SCALE ECHOGRAPHY; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TUMOR BLOOD FLOW; WOODCHUCK;

EID: 0030560924     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.1996.15.12.853     Document Type: Article

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