Identifying nonlinear characteristics for the bulk response of ultrasound contrast agents

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 1369-1372

  Mleczko, Michał ^a   Postema, Michiel ^a   Schmitz, Georg ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS; CONTRAST AGENT; DETECTION METHODS; DETECTION SCHEME; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; HEURISTIC REASONING; MEAN SQUARE; MEASURED SIGNALS; MICROBUBBLES; MODIFIED RAYLEIGH; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR CHARACTERISTICS; OSCILLATION BEHAVIOR; PREDICTION ERRORS; PSEUDO RANDOM; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; SINUSOIDAL INPUT; TIME INVARIANTS; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT; WIENER SERIES;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; HEURISTIC METHODS; RESONANCE; SIGNAL DETECTION; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

EID: 48149084601     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2006.350     Document Type: Conference Paper

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