Pulse inversion sequences for mechanically scanned transducers

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 1286-1289

  Frijlink, M E ^a   Goertz, D E ^a,b   De Jong, N ^a,c   Van Der Steen, A F W ^a,d  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d Exp Echo Ee 2302 ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST IMAGING; HIGH FREQUENCY; IN-VIVO; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MICRO-BUBBLE; MICROBUBBLE DETECTION; MOTION EFFECT; PULSE INVERSION; RF-DATA; TISSUE HARMONIC IMAGING; TISSUE IMAGING;

CHEMICAL DETECTION; IMAGE QUALITY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 36849075543     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2006.329     Document Type: Conference Paper

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