Improved contrast to tissue ratio at higher harmonics

Ultrasonics

Volumn 40, Issue 1-8, 2002, Pages 575-578

  Bouakaz, Ayache ^a,b   Frigstad, Sigmund ^c   Ten Cate, Folkert J ^d   De Jong, Nico ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c Ge Vingmed Ultrasound AS   (Norway)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bubbles; Contrast; Higher harmonics; Nonlinear propagation; Super harmonics

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE FORMATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; HARMONIC GENERATION; NONLINEAR DISTORTION; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC PROPAGATION; ULTRASONIC REFLECTION; ULTRASONIC SCATTERING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

CONTRAST TO TISSUE RATIOS (CTR); NONLINEAR PROPAGATION; PHASED ARRAY TRANSDUCERS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0036565951     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-624X(02)00172-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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