High frequency nonlinear B-scan imaging of microbubble contrast agents

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 65-79

  Goertz, David E ^a,c   Cherin, Emmanuel ^a   Needles, Andrew ^a   Karshafian, Raffi ^a   Brown, Allison S ^a   Burns, Peter N ^a   Foster, F Stuart ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DOPPLER EFFECT; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; NONLINEAR FILTERING; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TISSUE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; VOLUME FRACTION;

HARMONIC FREQUENCIES; PULSED-WAVE DOPPLER (PWD) SYSTEMS; ULTRAHARMONIC IMAGING; ULTRASOUND BIOMICROSCOPY (UBM);

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEART VENTRICLE; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBUBBLE; MICROCIRCULATION; MOUSE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RABBIT; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION;

ANIMALS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEART VENTRICLES; MICE; MICROBUBBLES; MICROCIRCULATION; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RABBITS; RADIO WAVES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 13844267538     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2005.1397351     Document Type: Article

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