Acoustic properties of atherosclerosis of human aorta obtained with high-frequency ultrasound

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1061-1064

  Saijo, Yoshifumi ^a   Sasaki, Hidehiko ^a   Okawai, Hiroaki ^a   Nitta, Shin Ichi ^a   Tanaka, Motonao ^b  

^a Inst Devmt   (Japan)

^b Tohoku Welfare Pension Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acoustic microscopy; Atherosclerosis; Attenuation; Intravascular ultrasound; Sound speed; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPES; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; SCANNING ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY (SAM);

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ACOUSTICS; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOUND; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; VELOCITY;

AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC DISEASES; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; TUNICA INTIMA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 0032168466     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(98)00054-4     Document Type: Article

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