Double passive cavitation detection of Optison™ shell rupture

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 846-849

  Ammi, Azzdine Y ^a   Cleveland, Robin O ^b   Mamou, Jonathan ^c   Wang, Grace I ^c   Bridal, S Lori ^a   O'Brien Jr , William D ^c  

^a UPMC Univ Paris 06   (France)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCITATION PARAMETERS; PULSE-ECHO; RAREFACTIONAL PRESSURE; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT (UCA);

CAVITATION; INFORMATION THEORY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSDUCERS;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 33847155920     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1602982     Document Type: Conference Paper

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