Predicting the acoustic response of a microbubble population for contrast imaging in medical ultrasound

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1293-1300

  Chin, Chien Ting ^a   Burns, Peter N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acoustic modeling; Microbubble contrast agents; Nonlinear scattering; Ultrasound contrast

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CONTRAST MEDIA; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

MICROBUBBLE CONTRAST AGENTS; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BUBBLE; DYNAMICS; IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; THEORY; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0034297853     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(00)00299-4     Document Type: Article

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