Ultrasonographic contrast-agent imaging of sub-millimeter vessel structures with spatial compounding: In vitro analyses

Biomedizinische Technik

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 274-283

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

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast; Mamma; Microbubbles; Subtraction angiography; Tomography; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SPECKLE; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONICS;

BREAST; MICROBUBBLES; SPECKLE NOISE; SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; FLOW MEASUREMENT; IMAGING; PHANTOM; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

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

EID: 34547915973     PISSN: 00135585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BMT.2007.047     Document Type: Article

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