A feasibility study of tissue harmonic generation with 3f0 transmit phasing

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1748-1751

  Shen, Che Chou ^a   Wang, Yu Chun ^a   Hsieh, Yi Chun ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Contrast agents; Contrast imaging; Harmonic enhancement; Harmonic suppression; Tissue harmonic

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; DECISION MAKING; HARMONIC GENERATION; PLANNING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONICS;

CONTRAST AGENTS; CONTRAST IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HARMONIC ENHANCEMENT; HARMONIC IMAGING; HARMONIC SIGNALS; HARMONIC SUPPRESSION; IMAGING CONDITIONS; LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; MICROBUBBLE DETECTION; TISSUE HARMONIC; TISSUE HARMONIC IMAGING;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 48149098585     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2007.440     Document Type: Conference Paper

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