Properties of an entropy-based signal receiver with an application to ultrasonic molecular imaging

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3542-3557

  Hughes, M S ^a   McCarthy, J E ^b   Marsh, J N ^a   Arbeit, J M ^a   Neumann, R G ^a   Fuhrhop, R W ^a   Wallace, K D ^a   Znidersic, D R ^a   Maurizi, B N ^b   Baldwin, S L ^a   Lanza, G M ^a   Wickline, S A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; BANDWIDTH; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; NANOPARTICLES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

NEOVASCULATURE; PERFLUOROCARBON; SIGNAL ENERGY; ULTRASONIC MOLECULAR IMAGING;

SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

NANOPARTICLE; VITRONECTIN RECEPTOR;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; ENTROPY; ILLUMINATION; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TUMOR; ULTRASOUND; WAVEFORM;

ENTROPY; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOPARTICLES; NEOPLASMS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 34249889056     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2722050     Document Type: Article

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