Attenuation and Size Distribution Measurements of Definity™ and Manipulated Definity™ Populations

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1376-1388

  Goertz, David E ^a,b   de Jong, Nico ^a,b,c   van der Steen, Antonius F W ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Contrast agents; High frequency ultrasound; Intravascular ultrasound; Microbubbles; Microcirculation; Mouse imaging; Vasa vasorum

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CHARACTERIZATION; FILTRATION; MICROMETERS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

CONTRAST AGENTS; HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MOUSE IMAGING;

CONTRAST MEDIA;

PERFLUTREN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOMICROSCOPY; FILTRATION; MEASUREMENT; MICROBUBBLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND;

CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUOROCARBONS; MICROBUBBLES; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICLE SIZE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 34548120566     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2007.03.009     Document Type: Article

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