Acoustic nonlinearity of liquid containing encapsulated microbubbles

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 186-193

  Ma, Jian ^a   Yu, Jinfei ^a   Fan, Zheng ^a   Zhu, Zhemin ^a   Gong, Xiufen ^a   Du, Gonghuan ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); ENCAPSULATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

MICROBUBBLES; NONLINEAR PARAMETERS;

ACOUSTICS;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; LIQUID; MEASUREMENT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 3142676568     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1760792     Document Type: Article

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