Noninvasive bladder volume measurements based on nonlinear wave distortion

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 469-476

  Bouakaz, Ayache ^a   Merks, Egon ^a,b   Lancée, Charles ^a   Bom, Nicolaas ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Diagnostic Ultrasound Europe ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bladder; Harmonic; Nonlinear propagation; Ultrasound; Volume; Wide beam

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS; TISSUE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

ACOUSTIC ATTENUATION; ECHO DETECTION; NONINVASIVE BLADDER; NONLINEAR WAVE DISTORTION;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BLADDER; BLADDER CAPACITY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIOPHYSICS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS; URINARY BLADDER; URINE;

EID: 2342508483     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2003.11.006     Document Type: Article

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