Improved contrast ultrasound with tissue harmonic minimizing pulse

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 249-253

  Krishnan, Kajoli B ^b   Thomenius, Kai E ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FOCUSING; HARMONIC GENERATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

HANKEL TRANSFORM; MECHANICAL INDICES; TISSUE HARMONIC MINIMIZING PULSES;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LETTER; LIVER; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 41649089179     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2008.634     Document Type: Article

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