Contrast imaging with chirped excitation

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 520-529

  Sun, Yang ^a,b   Kruse, Dustin E ^a,b   Ferrara, Katherine W ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRPED EXCITATION; CONTRAST IMAGING; MECHANICAL INDEX (MI); SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TISSUE;

CONTRAST MEDIA;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBUBBLE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROBUBBLES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33947614684     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.275     Document Type: Article

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