Relationships between scattered signals from ultrasonically activated contrast agents and cell membraned damage in vitro

Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2001, Pages 1751-1754

  Amararene, A ^a   Fowlkes, J B ^a   Song, J ^a   Miller, D L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; CELL MEMBRANES; CONTRAST MEDIA; MONOLAYERS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

CELL MEMBRANE DAMAGE; PHAGOCYTIC CELLS; RELATIVE INTEGRATED POWER SPECTRUM; ULTRASONICALLY ACTIVATED CONTRAST AGENTS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0035729801     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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