Acoustic techniques for assessing the optison destruction threshold

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1519-1529

  Porter, Tyrone M ^a,b   Smith, Denise A B ^a   Holland, Christy K ^a  

^a University of Cincinnati   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustically driven diffusion; Optison; Rapid fragmentation; Static diffusion; Ultrasound contrast agent destruction

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; SCATTERING; STATISTICAL METHODS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; WATER;

ACOUSTICALLY DRIVEN DIFFUSION; OCTAFLUOROPROPANE CONTRAST AGENTS; RAPID FRAGMENTATION; RAREFACTIONAL PRESSURE; STATIC DIFFUSION;

DRUG PRODUCTS;

ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM; FS 069; OCTAFLUOROPROPANE;

ARTICLE; B SCAN; DEVICE; ECHOGRAPHY; GRAY SCALE ECHOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

EID: 33846973649     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2006.25.12.1519     Document Type: Article

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