Volume Scattering of Distributed Microbubbles and Its Influence on Blood Flow Estimation

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1699-1710

  Lo, Men Tzung ^a   Tsao, Jenho ^a   Su, Darong ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BANDPASS FILTERS; BANDWIDTH; BLOOD; CELLS; CORRELATION METHODS; DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER EFFECT; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FUNCTIONS; HEMODYNAMICS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

BLOOD FLOW; DOPPLER ULTRASOUND; VOLUME SCATTERING;

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS);

CONTRAST MEDIUM; MICROSPHERE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHEMISTRY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; METHODOLOGY;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONTRAST MEDIA; MICROSPHERES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 1442360744     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2003.1256311     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. F. PoHoey, J. C. Peter, C. N. Navin, M. R. Steven, and Y. Ajit, "Comparison of various agents in contrast enhancement of color Doppler flow images: An in vitro study," Ultrasound Med. Biol., vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 45-57, 1993.
2. R. A. Levine, L. E. Teichholz, M. E. Goldman, M. Y. Steinmetz, M. Baker, and R. S. Meltzer, "Microbubbles have intracardiac velocities similar to those of red blood cells," J. Amer. Coll. Cardiol., vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 28-33, 1984.
3. M. Gutberlet, S. Venz, W. Zendel, N. Hosten, and R. Felix, "Do ultrasonic contrast agents artificially increase maximum Doppler shift? In vivo study of human common carotid arteries," J. Ultrasound Med., vol. 17, pp. 97-102, 1998.
4. F. Basseau, N. Grenier, H. Trillaud, C. Douws, and A. Saint-Amon, "Doppler frequency shift and time-domain velocity enhancement induced by an ultrasonographic contrast agent," J. Ultrasound Med., vol. 19, pp. 171-176, 2000.
5. F. Forsberg, J. B. Liu, P. N. Burns, D. A. Merton, and B. B. Goldberg, "Artifacts in ultrasonic contrast agent studies," J. Ultrasound Med., vol. 13, pp. 357-365, 1994.
6. M. Gutberlet, S. Venz, R. Neuhaus, T. Ehrenstein, A. J. Lemke, T. J. Vogl, N. Hosten, P. Neuhaus, and R. Felix, "Contrast agent enhanced duplex-ultrasonography: Visualization of the hepatic artery after orthotopic liver transplantation," Fortsch. Röntgenstr, vol. 166, pp. 411-416, 1997.
7. J. Petrick, M. Zomack, and R. Schlief, "An investigation of the relationship between ultrasound echo enhancement and Doppler frequency shift using a pulsatile arterial flow phantom," Invest. Radiol., vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 225-235, 1997.
8. N. Sponheim and M. Myhrum, "An ultrasound contrast agent's influence on the measured Doppler signal," in Proc. IEEE Ultrason. Symp., 1995, pp. 1133-1136.
9. N. Sponheim and M. Myhrum, "An in vitro study on the influence of limited frequency resolution on contrast agent-enhanced Doppler signals," Ultrasonics, vol. 34, pp. 599-601, 1996.
10. Y. Takeuchi, "Correlation of Doppler spectrum widening due to scintillation of decaying microbubble contrast agent injected in flowing fluid, mathematical modeling and in-vitro study," in Proc. IEEE Ultrason. Symp., 1998, pp. 1811-1814.
11. P. Tortoli, M. Pratesi, and V. Michelassi, "Doppler spectra from contrast agents crossing an ultrasound field," IEEE Trans. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Contr., vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 716-725, 2000.
12. S. H. Wang, P. H. Chang, K. K. Shung, and H. B. Levene, "Some consideration on the measurements of mean frequency shift and integrated backscatter following administration of Albunex®," Ultrasound Med. Biol., vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 441-451, 1996.
13. A. Bouakkaz, N. De Jong, L. Gerfault, and C. Cachard, "In vitro standard acoustic parameters of ultrasound contrast agents: Definitions and calculations," in Proc. IEEE Ultrason. Symp., 1996, pp. 1445-1448.
14. C. Cachard, A. Bouakkaz, and G. Gimenez, "In vitro evaluation of acoustic properties of ultrasound contrast agents: Experimental set-up and signal processing," Ultrasonics, vol. 34, pp. 595-598, 1996.
15. K. E. Morgan, P. A. Dayton, D. E. Kruse, A. L. Klibanov, G. H. Brandenburger, and K. W. Ferrara, "Changes in the echoes from ultrasonic contrast agents with imaging parameters," IEEE Trans. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Contr., vol. 45, no. 6, pp. 1537-1548, 1998.
16. L. Y. L. Mo and R. S. C. Cobbold, "A unified approach to modeling the backscattered Doppler ultrasound from blood," IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. 39, no. 5, pp. 450-461, 1992.
17. K. K. Shung and G. A. Thieme, Eds. Ultrasonic Scattering in Biological Tissues. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1993.
18. M. Minnaert, "On musical air bubbles and the sound of running water," Philos. Mag., vol. 16, pp. 235-248, 1933.
19. N. de Jong, "Improvements in ultrasound contrast agents," IEEE Eng. Med. Biol., vol. 15, pp. 72-82, Nov./Dec. 1996.
20. H. Medwin, "Counting bubbles acoustically: A review," Ultrasonics, vol. 15, pp. 7-13, 1977.
21. N. de Jong, L. Hoff, T. Skotland, and N. Bom, "Absorption and scatter of encapsulated gas filled microspheres: Theoretical considerations and some measurements," Ultrasonics, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 95-103, 1992.
22. N. de Jong, R. Cornet, and C. T. Lancée, "Higher harmonics of vibrating gas-filled microspheres. Part One: Simulations," Ultrasonics, vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 447-453, 1994.
23. L. Hoff, "Acoustic properties of ultrasonic contrast agents," Ultrasonics, vol. 34, pp. 591-593, 1996.
24. T. Loupas and R. W. Gill, "Multifrequency Doppler: Improving the quality of spectral estimation by making full use of the information present in the backscattered RF echoes," IEEE Trans. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Preq. Contr., vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 522-531, 1994.
25. L. S. Wilson, "Description of broad-band pulsed Doppler ultrasound processing using the two-dimensional Fourier transform," Ultrason. Imag., vol. 13, pp. 301-315, 1991.
26. V. L. Newhouse, P. J. Bendick, and L. W. Varner, "Analysis of transit time effects on Doppler flow measurements," IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. 23, pp. 381-387, 1976.
27. J. A. Jensen, Estimation of Blood Velocities Using Ultrasound: A Signal Processing Approach. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996.
28. L. Y. L. Mo, C. M. Y. Locus, and R. S. C. Cobbold, "Comparison of four digital maximum frequency estimators for Doppler ultrasound," Ultrasound Med. Biol., vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 355-363, 1988.
29. K. Kristoffersen, "Optimal receiver filtering in pulsed Doppler ultrasound blood velocity measurements," IEEE Trans. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Contr., vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 51-58, 1986.
30. G. Guidi, V. L. Newhouse, and P. Tortoli, "Doppler spectrum shape analysis based on the summation of flow-line spectra," IEEE Trans. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Contr., vol. 42, no. 5, pp. 907-915, 1995.
31. F. A. Duck, A. C. Baker, and H. C. Starritt, Ultrasound in Medicine. Philadelphia: Institute of Physics Pub., 1998.
32. M. Blomley, "Clutter reduction using harmonic power angio with Levovist helps in assessment of liver metastases," Medicamundi, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 15-18, 1998.
33. N. El-Massri, A. Gackowski, and W. Piwowarska, "The present contrast echocardiography, Medicamundi," Case Rep. Clin. Pract. Rev., vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 235-243, 2001.
34. K. Soetanto and M. Chan, "Fundamental studies on contrast images from different-sized microbubbles: Analytical and experimental studies," Ultrasound Med. Biol., vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 81-91, 2000.
35. K. Kristoffersen, "Time-domain estimation of the center frequency and spread of Doppler spectra in diagnostic ultrasound," IEEE Trans. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Contr., vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 484-497, 1988.