Manufacture and acoustical characterisation of a high-frequency contrast agent for targeting applications

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 421-428

  Moran, C M ^a,b   Ross, J A ^a   Cunningham, C ^a   Butler, M ^a   Anderson, T ^a   Newby, D ^a   Fox, K A A ^a   McDicken, W N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contrast agents; High frequency; Liposome; Plaque; Targeting; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

AMINES; BACKSCATTERING; BLOOD; DISPERSIONS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

CONTRAST AGENTS; HIGH-FREQUENCY; LIPOSOME; PLAQUE; TARGETING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

CHOLESTEROL; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIPALMITOYLPHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE; DIPALMITOYLPHOSPHATIDYLGLYCEROL; LIPOSOME; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISPERSION; DRUG STABILITY; DRUG SYNTHESIS; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LIGHT SCATTERING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; LIPOSOMES; PARTICLE SIZE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 33644825317     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2005.11.008     Document Type: Article

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