Imaging contrast agent and tissue at higher harmonics

Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1981-1984

  Bouakaz, A ^a,b   Krenning, B ^a,b,c   Vletter, W ^c   Ten Cate, F ^a,b,c   De Jong, N ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Institute of the Netherlands   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; IMAGE QUALITY; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

CONTRAST AGENT; CONTRAST TO TISSUE RATIO; FREQUENCY BAND ARRAY TRANSDUCER; MECHANICAL INDEX;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0036995295     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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