Pulse inversion techniques in ultrasonic nonlinear imaging

Journal of Medical Ultrasound

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-17

  Shen, Che Chou ^d   Chou, Yi Hong ^a,b   Li, Pai Chi ^c  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Contrast detection; Motion artifacts; Nonlinear imaging; Pulse inversion; Ultrasonic contrast agents

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; NC 100100; SHU 508;

ARTIFACT; B SCAN; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST MEDIUM EXTRAVASATION; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL FILTERING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEPATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER INJURY; MICROBUBBLE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RADIOCARDIOGRAPHY; RADIOFREQUENCY; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOFT TISSUE RADIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR TUMOR; WAVEFORM;

EID: 33745594564     PISSN: 09296441     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0929-6441(09)60073-4     Document Type: Review

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