Harmonic chirp imaging with ultrasound contrast agents at high frequency

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 228-231

  Williams, Ross ^a   Needles, Andrew ^a   Cherin, Emmanuel ^a   Burns, Peter N ^a   Foster, F Stuart ^a   Leavens, Claudia ^b   Sherar, Michael D ^b  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; ACOUSTIC WAVES; AGENTS; DATA COMPRESSION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRELLIS CODES; ULTRASONICS; WAVE FILTERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; BANDWIDTH; MATCHED FILTERS; OPTIMIZATION;

APODIZATION; B-MODE IMAGING; CHIRP COMPRESSION; FLOW CELLS; FRACTIONAL BANDWIDTH (FBW); GAUSSIAN; HARMONIC CHIRP; HARMONIC COMPONENTS; HARMONIC IMAGING; HIGH-FREQUENCY (HF); IMAGING RESOLUTIONS; INTERNATIONAL (CO); LINEAR CHIRP; NEGATIVE PRESSURES; SECOND HARMONIC (SH); SUB HARMONICS; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT (USCA); VESSEL PHANTOM;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING; HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

APODIZATIONS; B-MODE IMAGES; CHIRP COMPRESSION; CONTRAST-TO-TISSUE RATIO; DEFINITY; FLOW CELLS; FRACTIONAL BANDWIDTHS; GAUSSIAN EXCITATIONS; GAUSSIANS; HARMONIC CHIRP; HARMONIC COMPONENTS; HARMONIC IMAGING; HIGH FREQUENCY; IMAGING RESOLUTIONS; LINEAR CHIRP; NEGATIVE PRESSURES; SECOND HARMONICS; SUBHARMONICS; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT; VESSEL PHANTOM;

EID: 36849071710     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2006.70     Document Type: Conference Paper

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