Improvement of tissue harmonic imaging using the pulse-inversion technique

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 889-894

  Ma, Qingyu ^a,b   Ma, Yong ^a   Gong, Xiufen ^a   Zhang, Dong ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Enhancement of second harmonic; Pulse inversion technique; Tissue harmonic imaging

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INVERSE KINEMATICS; LASER PULSES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TISSUE;

FINITE AMPLITUDE; HARMONIC COMPONENT; HARMONIC IMAGING; PULSE-INVERSION TECHNIQUE;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; IMAGING; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TECHNIQUE; THEORETICAL STUDY; ULTRASOUND;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SWINE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED;

EID: 20444439817     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2005.03.006     Document Type: Article

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