Suppression of propagating second harmonic in ultrasound contrast imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 704-711

  Krishnan, Srirarn ^a   Hamilton, James D ^a   O'Donnell, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; BLOOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE QUALITY; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC PROPAGATION;

HARMONIC CANCELLATION SYSTEMS (HCS);

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0032070315     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.677614     Document Type: Article

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