Harmonic chirp imaging method for ultrasound contrast agent

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 241-248

  Borsboom, Jerome M G ^a,b   Chin, Chien Ting ^a,c,d   Bouakaz, Ayache ^a,b   Versluis, Michel ^e   De Jong, Nico ^a,b,e  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c FOM INSTITUTE DIFFER   (Netherlands)

^d PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC COMPRESSION; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND; PENETRATION DEPTH; POWER MODULATION;

CAMERAS; ECHO SUPPRESSION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ULTRASONICS;

CONTRAST AGENT BR1; CONTRAST MEDIUM; MICROSPHERE; PHOSPHOLIPID; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE;

ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CONTRAST MEDIA; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSPHERES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 15844430482     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2005.1406550     Document Type: Article

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