The measurement of backscatter from individual contrast agent microbubbles

Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1945-1947

  Sboros, V ^a   Pye, S D ^a   Anderson, T ^a   Moran, C M ^a   Averkiou, M ^c   MacDonald, C A ^b   Gomatam, J ^b   McDicken, W N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; BACKSCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

BACKSCATTER; COPPER PARTICLES; INDIVIDUAL CONTRAST AGENT MICROBUBBLES;

ULTRASONIC SCATTERING;

EID: 0036995725     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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