Golay pulse encoding for microbubble contrast imaging in ultrasound

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2082-2090

  Leavens, Claudia ^b   Williams, Ross ^c   Foster, F Stuart ^a,b,c   Burns, Peter N ^b,c   Sherar, Michael D ^b,d  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST-TO-TISSUE RATIO (CTR); MICROBUBBLE; TISSUE SIGNALS;

ALGORITHMS; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; BANDWIDTH; TISSUE ENGINEERING; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

PULSE MODULATION;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MICROBUBBLE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

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

EID: 37049009254     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.503     Document Type: Article

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