Quantitative acoustic characterization of a new surfactant-based ultrasound contrast agent

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1201-1208

  Forsberg, Flemming ^a,c   Wu, Yunqui ^a   Makin, Inder R S ^a   Wang, Wenhua ^b   Wheatley, Margaret A ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Drexel University   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic characterization; Enhancement Attenuation; In vivo dose response; Ultrasound contrast agent

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; ATTENUATION; BLOOD VESSELS; DOPPLER EFFECT; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PULSATILE FLOW; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ACOUSTIC CHARACTERIZATION; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT;

CONTRAST MEDIA;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; NONIONIC SURFACTANT; ST 68; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DOSE RESPONSE; ECHOGRAPHY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; HEXOSES; KIDNEY; POLYSORBATES; PULSATILE FLOW; RABBITS; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 0030827939     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(97)00078-1     Document Type: Article

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