High frequency attenuation measurements of lipid encapsulated contrast agents

Ultrasonics

Volumn 44, Issue SUPPL., 2006, Pages

  Goertz, D E ^a,b   Frijlink, M E ^a   Voormolen, M M ^a,b   de Jong, N ^a,b,c   van der Steen, A F W ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Contrast agents; Harmonic; High frequencies; Intravascular ultrasound; Microbubbles; Subharmonic

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; BLOOD VESSELS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LIPIDS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

CONTRAST AGENTS; HIGH FREQUENCIES; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MICROBUBBLES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

BR14 CONTRAST AGENT; FLUOROCARBON; LIPID; PHOSPHOLIPID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; MICROBUBBLE; MICROCAPSULE; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION;

CAPSULES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FLUOROCARBONS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIPIDS; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROBUBBLES; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIO WAVES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33845712440     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2006.06.032     Document Type: Article

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