Active enhancement of ultrasound contrast imaging

Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages 1893-1896

  Shi, William T ^a   Forsberg, Flemming ^a   Bautista, Ronald ^b   Vecchio, Chris ^b   Bernardi, Richard ^b   Goldberg, Barry B ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SpectrasoNcs Imaging Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; BLOOD; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CONTRAST MEDIA; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SCATTERING; TISSUE;

UTRASOUND CONTRAST IMAGING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0034579657     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2000.921694     Document Type: Article

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