Simulations and measurements of optical images of insonified ultrasound contrast microbubbles

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 523-536

  Postema, Michiel ^a,b   Bouakaz, Ayache ^a,b   Chin, Chien Ting ^a,c   De Jong, Nico ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

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

^c Found for Fundamental Res Matter   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPES;

ACOUSTIC AMPLITUDES; MICROBUBBLES; OPTICAL IMAGES; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENTS;

ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0038601904     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2003.1201465     Document Type: Article

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