Improved ultrasound contrast agent detection in a clinical setting

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2235-2238

  Emmer, M ^a,b   Matte, G ^a,c   Van Neer, P ^a,c   Van Wamel, A ^a   De Jong, N ^a,c,d  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Foundation for Fundamental Research of Matter   (Netherlands)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Phospholipid coated contrast agents; Power modulation; Pressure dependent scattering; Programmable ultrasound system

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MODULATION; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; SUSPENSIONS (COMPONENTS); SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC EQUIPMENT; ULTRASONICS;

ACOUSTIC PRESSURES; CLINICAL SETTINGS; CONTRAST AGENT; INVERSE RELATIONSHIP; MICRO-BUBBLES; OPTICAL STUDIES; PHOSPHOLIPID-COATED CONTRAST AGENTS; POWER MODULATION; POWER MODULATIONS; PRESSURE-DEPENDENT SCATTERING; PROGRAMMABLE ULTRASOUND SYSTEM; TRANSMIT FREQUENCY; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT; ULTRASOUND SYSTEMS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 48149088950     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2007.562     Document Type: Conference Paper

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3. M. Emmer, H. J. Vos, D. E. Goertz, A. Van Wamel, M. Versluis, and N. De Jong, "Vibrating microbubbles at low acoustic pressures," Abstr. 12th Eur Symp Ultrasound Contrast Imaging, p. 84, 2007.
4. M. Emmer, H. J. Vos, A. Van Wamel, D. E. Goertz, M. versluis, and N. De Jong, "Clinical relevance of pressure-dependent scattering at low acoustic pressures," Ultrasonics, vol. In Press, 2007.