Nonlinear propagation of ultrasound through microbubble contrast agents and implications for imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2406-2415

  Tang, Meng Xing ^a,b   Eckersley, Robert J ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST AGENT IMAGES; IMAGING ERRORS; MICROBUBBLES; NONLINEAR ECHOES;

HARMONIC GENERATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ULTRASONIC PROPAGATION;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBUBBLE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROBUBBLES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33846294785     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.189     Document Type: Article

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