Effect of filling gases on the backscatter from contrast microbubbles: Theory and in vivo measurements

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1203-1211

  Forsberg, Flemming ^a   Basude, Rahguveer ^b   Liu, Ji Bin ^a   Alessandro, John ^b   Shi, William T ^a   Rawool, Nandkumar M ^a   Goldberg, Barry B ^a   Wheatley, Margaret A ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast enhancement; Filling gas; In vivo dose response; Ultrasound contrast agent

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; CONTRAST MEDIA; DOPPLER EFFECT; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

FILLING GASES; MICROBUBBLES;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM; PERFLUORO COMPOUND; PERFLUOROBUTANE; POLYSORBATE 40; POLYSORBATE 80; SORBITAN PALMITATE; SORBITAN STEARATE; ST 44; ST 68; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; SURFACTANT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AIR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AORTA; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOSE RESPONSE; GAS; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MODEL; NONHUMAN; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RADIATION SCATTERING; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ANIMALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FLUOROCARBONS; GASES; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; KIDNEY; MICROSPHERES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RABBITS; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 0032879188     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(99)00079-4     Document Type: Article

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