Real-time excitation-enhanced ultrasound contrast imaging

Ultrasonic Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 65-74

  Forsberg, Flemming ^a   Shi, William T ^a,c,d   Knauer, Michael K ^b   Hall, Anne L ^c   Vecchio, Chris ^b   Bernardi, Richard ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Spectrasonics Imaging Inc ^*  (United States)

^c GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^d PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Harmonic imaging; Imaging enhancement; Intermittent imaging; Multipulse imaging; Ultrasound contrast agent

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; SCANNING; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

HARMONIC IMAGING; HIGH INTENSITY ULTRASOUNDS; MULTIPULSES; PHASED ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; PHILIPS MEDICAL SYSTEMS; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST IMAGING; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST MICROBUBBLES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

BG 1135; BUTANE; CONTRAST MICROBUBBLE; ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM; NC 100100; PERFLUOROBUTANE; QUANFUXIAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACOUSTICS; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EXCITATION ENHANCED IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; PHANTOM; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; SIGNAL DETECTION; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 26044472094     PISSN: 01617346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016173460502700201     Document Type: Article

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