Shell rupture threshold, fragmentation threshold, Blake threshold

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 1708-1711

  Postema, Michiel ^a   De Jong, Nico ^b   Schmitz, Georg ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; KINETIC ENERGY; MEDICAL IMAGING; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING;

BLAKE THRESHOLD; DESTRUCTION THRESHOLDS; FRAGMENTATION THRESHOLD; NANOSHELLED MICROBUBBLES;

CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY;

EID: 33847169425     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1603194     Document Type: Conference Paper

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