In vitro study of frequency-dependent blood echogenicity under pulsatile flow

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2507-2510

  Nguyen, Linh Chi ^a   Yu, François ^a   Cloutier, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Backscattering coefficient; Cyclic echogenicity variations; High frequency ultrasound; Pulsatile flow; Red blood cell aggregation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; AGGLOMERATION; BLOOD; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; PULSATILE FLOW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; SPEECH; TRANSDUCERS;

AGGREGATE SIZE; BACKSCATTERED SIGNALS; BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENT; COUETTE FLOWS; CYCLIC CHANGES; CYCLIC ECHOGENICITY VARIATIONS; CYCLIC VARIATIONS; ECHOGENICITY; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND; IN VITRO STUDIES; IN-VIVO; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; RBC AGGREGATION; RED BLOOD CELL AGGREGATION; SHEAR RATES; SINGLE-ELEMENT TRANSDUCERS; SPECTRAL ANALYSES; STROKE RATES; ULTRASOUND FREQUENCIES;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 48149096870     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2007.631     Document Type: Conference Paper

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