High-speed optical observations and simulation results of SonoVue microbubbles at low-pressure insonation

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1333-1342

  Chetty, Kevin ^a   Stride, Eleanor ^b   Sennoga, Charles ^a   Hajnal, Joseph ^a   Eckersley, Robert ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); ELASTICITY; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; MICROFLUIDICS; MOTION ESTIMATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

(001) PARAMETER; ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS; ACOUSTIC RESPONSES; CONTRAST AGENT (CA); HIGH SPEEDS; HIGH-SPEED CAMERAS; INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); INSONATION; LOW PRESSURE (LP); MICRO BUBBLES; MICRO-BUBBLES; MOVING WINDOWS; OPTICAL OBSERVATIONS; PARAMETERIZED; PROPERTY (S); RAYLEIGH; RESONANT FREQUENCIES; SHELL ELASTICITY; SHELL MATERIALS; SIMULATION DATA; SIMULATION RESULTS; ULTRASOUND EXPOSURE;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CONTRAST AGENT BR1; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; PHOSPHOLIPID; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBUBBLE; PRESSURE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; ULTRASOUND;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; MICROBUBBLES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PRESSURE; SONICATION; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 44949123478     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2008.796     Document Type: Article

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