Subharmonic emissions from microbubbles: Effect of the driving pulse shape

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2174-2182

  Biagi, Elena ^a   Breschi, Luca ^a   Vannacci, Enrico ^a   Masotti, Leonardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; OSCILLATIONS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

MICROBUBBLES; SUBHARMONIC EMISSION; ULTRASONIC CONTRAST AGENTS (UCA); WAVE GENERATORS;

LASER PULSES;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; MICROBUBBLE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MICROBUBBLES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33846186298     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.157     Document Type: Article

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