Microbubble Contrast Agent Detection Using Binary Coded Pulses

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1787-1795

  Eckersley, Robert J ^a   Tang, Meng Xing ^a   Chetty, Kevin ^a   Hajnal, Joseph V ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barker codes; Coded excitation; Golay codes; Microbubbles; Multipulse sequences; Ultrasound contrast agents

Indexed keywords

BINARY CODES; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BARKER CODES; CODED EXCITATION; GOLAY CODES; MICROBUBBLES; MULTIPULSE SEQUENCES; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENTS;

TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; B SCAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MICROBUBBLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ULTRASOUND;

BIOMECHANICS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROBUBBLES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 35448975241     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2007.05.015     Document Type: Article

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