A new ultrasonic transducer for improved contrast nonlinear imaging

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 3515-3525

  Bouakaz, Ayache ^a,b   ten Cate, Folkert ^a   de Jong, Nico ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL IMAGING; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION;

CONTRAST NONLINEAR IMAGING; CONTRAST TO TISSUE RATION (CTR);

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

SONOVUE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; IMAGING SYSTEM; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; RADIATION ENERGY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND TRANSMISSION; STANDARD; SWINE; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 4444271431     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/16/001     Document Type: Article

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