The ultrasonic weak short-pulse responses of microbubbles based on a two-frequency approximation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2662-2671

  Wu, Chung Yuo ^a   Tsao, Jenho ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CAVITATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

MICROBUBBLES;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; IMAGING SYSTEM; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0242693192     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1621861     Document Type: Article

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