Ultrasound harmonic behaviour of artificial tissues

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 1668-1671

  Casciaro, S ^a,b   Distante, A ^a,b   Demitri, C ^b   Errico, R Palmizio ^b   Conversano, F ^b   Palma, G ^b   Casciaro, E ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b ISBEM   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mechanical index; Second harmonic; Tissue mimicking phantom; Ultrasound contrast imaging

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; HARMONIC GENERATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

HYDROGEL POLYMERIC MATERIALS; MECHANICAL INDEX; TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOMS; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST IMAGING;

TISSUE;

EID: 33847122915     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1603184     Document Type: Conference Paper

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