Perfusion harmonic imaging of the human brain

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5035, Issue , 2003, Pages 337-348

  Metzler, Volker ^a   Seidel, Günter ^b   Wiesmann, Martin ^b   Meyer, Karsten ^b   Aach, Til ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain perfusion; Cerebral microcirculation; Cerebrovascular diagnostics; Contrast agent; Destruction kinetics; Harmonic imaging; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

HARMONIC IMAGING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0041381192     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.479875     Document Type: Conference Paper

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