Ultrasound attenuation in encapsulated microbubble suspensions: The multiple scattering effects

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 961-969

  Chen, Jiusheng ^a   Zhu, Zhemin ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Microbubble; Multiple scattering effects; Ultrasound contrast agents

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SCATTERING;

MICROBUBBLE; MULTIPLE SCATTERING EFFECTS; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENTS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ENCAPSULATION; IMAGING; MICROBUBBLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ULTRASOUND;

ACOUSTICS; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; MICROBUBBLES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICLE SIZE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33745157956     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2006.01.018     Document Type: Article

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