Stable and transient subharmonic emissions from isolated contrast agent microbubbles

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 480-497

  Biagi, Elena ^a   Breschi, Luca ^a   Vannacci, Enrico ^a   Masotti, Leonardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC EXCITATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRASONICS;

ECHO SIGNALS; EXCITATION FREQUENCIES; SUBHARMONIC EMISSION; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENTS (UCA);

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MICROBUBBLE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY;

CONTRAST MEDIA; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROBUBBLES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33947678729     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.272     Document Type: Article

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