Contrast enhanced perfusion imaging by means of spatial compounding

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 424-427

  Hansen, Christian ^a   Hüttebräuker, Nils ^a   Ashfaq, Mohammad ^a   Wilkening, Wilko ^a   Ermert, Helmut ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contrast agents; Nonlinear imaging; Perfusion imaging; Spatial compounding

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS);

CONTRAST AGENT (CA); CONTRAST ENHANCED; ECHO SIGNALS; FEMALE BREAST; H IGH CONCENTRATIONS; HIGHER HARMONICS; IN-VITRO; INTERNATIONAL (CO); ISOTROPIC RESOLUTION; PERFUSION IMAGING; SPATIAL COMPOUNDING; TRANSMIT POWERS;

ULTRASONICS;

CONTRAST AGENT; CONTRAST-ENHANCED; ECHO SIGNALS; FEMALE BREAST; HIGH CONCENTRATION; HIGHER HARMONICS; IN-VITRO; ISOTROPIC RESOLUTION; NONLINEAR IMAGING; PERFUSION IMAGING; SPATIAL COMPOUNDING; TRANSMIT POWER;

EID: 34250632095     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2006.117     Document Type: Conference Paper

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