Characterization of ultrasound-induced fracture of polymer-shelled ultrasonic contrast agents by correlation analysis

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2425-2430

  Pecorari, Claudio ^a   Grishenkov, Dmitry ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; CORRELATION METHODS; POLYMERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC RESPONSE; MICROBUBBLE; ULTRASONIC CONTRAST AGENTS; ULTRASOUND FRACTURE;

ULTRASONICS;

ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; MICROBUBBLE; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CONTRAST MEDIA; ELASTICITY; ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MICROBUBBLES; NANOCAPSULES; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL; PRESSURE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 34848875053     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2769618     Document Type: Article

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