Image enhancement by acoustic conditioning of ultrasound contrast agents

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 191-198

  Shi, William T ^a,c   Forsberg, Flemming ^a   Bautista, Ronald ^b   Vecchio, Chris ^b   Bernardi, Richard ^b   Goldberg, Barry B ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Spectrasonics Imaging Inc   (United States)

^c GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast microbubble; Imaging enhancement; Multipulse imaging; Scattering enhancement; Ultrasound contrast agent

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC GENERATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SCATTERING;

IMAGING FIELDS; MICROBUBBLES;

ULTRASONICS;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; FS 069; NC 100100; SHU 508; SONAVIST;

ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOFREQUENCY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ALBUMINS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; FLUOROCARBONS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IRON; MICROBUBBLES; OXIDES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POLYSACCHARIDES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 1442299359     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2003.10.007     Document Type: Article

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