Investigating the nonlinear microbubble response to chirp encoded, multipulse sequences

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1887-1895

  Chetty, Kevin ^a   Hajnal, Joseph V ^a   Eckersley, Robert J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chirp; Coded excitation; Contrast microbubbles; Multipulse sequences; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; RAYLEIGH FADING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

CHIRP; CODED EXCITATION; CONTRAST MICROBUBBLES; MULTIPULSE SEQUENCES;

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS);

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; MICROBUBBLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ULTRASOUND;

ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICROBUBBLES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 33845304678     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2006.06.022     Document Type: Article

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