A simulation study on tissue harmonic imaging with a single-element intravascular ultrasound catheter

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1723-1731

  Frijlink, Martijn E ^a   Goertz, David E ^a,b   Bouakaz, Ayache ^c   Van Der Steen, Antonius F W ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; CATHETERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TISSUE;

ANALOG FILTERING; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND (IVUS); NONLINEAR BEAMS; PULSE INVERSION;

ACOUSTIC IMAGING;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CATHETER; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATION; TRANSDUCER;

ACOUSTICS; CATHETERIZATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 33748571545     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2226069     Document Type: Article

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