Subharmonic performance of contrast microbubbles: An experimental and numerical investigation

Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1957-1960

  Shi, William T ^a   Hoff, Lars ^b   Forsberg, Flemming ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Amersham Health   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; CONTRAST MEDIA; NONLINEAR DISTORTION; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

CONTRAST MICROBUBBLES; SUBHARMONIC IMAGING; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0036989213     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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