Intravascular ultrasound tissue harmonic imaging in vivo

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1844-1851

  Frijlink, Martijn E ^b   Goertz, David E ^b,c   Van Damme, Luc C A ^b   Krams, Rob ^b   Van Der Steen, Antonius F W ^a,b,c  

^a IEEE

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; IMAGE QUALITY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND (IVUS); MEDICAL ULTRASOUND; SECOND HARMONIC IMAGING; TISSUE HARMONIC IMAGING (THI);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RABBIT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RABBITS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 33845607738     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.116     Document Type: Article

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