Enhancement of subharmonic emission from encapsulated microbubbles by using a chirp excitation technique

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 5531-5544

  Zhang, Dong ^a   Gong, Yanjun ^a   Gong, Xiufen ^a   Liu, Zheng ^b   Tan, Kaibin ^b   Zheng, Hairong ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c University of California Davis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE;

CHIRP EXCITATION TECHNIQUE; ENCAPSULATED MICROBUBBLES; SUBHARMONIC GENERATION THRESHOLD; ULTRASOUND PULSES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROBUBBLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION PHYSICS; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASOUND;

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

EID: 35848959047     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/18/005     Document Type: Article

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