Optimized contrast agent imaging considering different sources of nonlinearity

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 633-636

  Wilkening, Wilko G ^a   Hansen, Christian ^a   Fischer, Christiane ^a   Ermert, Helmut ^a   Hölscher, Thilo ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast agents; Low MI; Microbubbles; Nonlinear imaging; Optimized filters; Pulse sequences; Tissue

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TISSUE;

CONTRAST AGENTS; LOW MI; MICROBUBBLES; NONLINEAR IMAGING; OPTIMIZED FILTERS; PULSE SEQUENCES;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 33847166223     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1602932     Document Type: Conference Paper

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