An ultrasonic microbubble semi-intermodulated imaging technique

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1199-1210

  Wu, Chung Yuo ^a   Tsao, Jenho ^b   Chou, Yi Hong ^c  

^a Micro Star Int'l Co Ltd   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Contrast agents; Low frequency response; Microbubbles; Semi intermodulated imaging; Ultrasonic imaging

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; BANDWIDTH; MODULATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TISSUE;

CONTRAST AGENTS; LOW-FREQUENCY RESPONSE; MICROBUBBLES; SEMI-INTERMODULATED IMAGING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISPLAY SYSTEM; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROBUBBLES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 24944462795     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2005.04.015     Document Type: Article

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