Harmonic intravascular ultrasound imaging with a dual-frequency catheter

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1649-1654

  Frijlink, Martijn E ^a   Goertz, David E ^a,b   Vos, Hendrik J ^a,c   Tesselaar, Erik ^a,d   Blacquière, Gerrit ^c,d   Gisolf, Andries ^c   Krams, Rob ^a   van der Steen, Antonius F W ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

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

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Catheter; Dual frequency; High frequency; Intravascular ultrasound; IVUS; Tissue harmonic imaging; Transducer

Indexed keywords

CATHETERS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

DUAL-FREQUENCY TRANSDUCERS; HARMONIC IMAGING; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; TISSUE HARMONIC IMAGING; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ANIMALS; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CATHETERIZATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RABBITS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 33750840297     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2006.05.024     Document Type: Article

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