SURF imaging - A new method for ultrasound contrast agent imaging

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 531-541

  Angelsen, Bjørn A J ^a   Hansen, Rune ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b SINTEF   (Norway)

Author keywords

Contrast agent; Nonlinearity; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; SEPARATION; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

CONTRAST AGENT; DUAL-FREQUENCY; FREQUENCY SEPARATIONS; LOW FREQUENCIES; MICRO-BUBBLES; NONLINEARITY; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 48149093609     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2007.140     Document Type: Conference Paper

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