Suppression of tissue harmonics for pulse-inversion contrast imaging using time reversal

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 5469-5480

  Couture, Olivier ^a   Aubry, Jean François ^a   Montaldo, Gabriel ^a   Tanter, Mickael ^a   Fink, Mathias ^a  

^a INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; QUANTUM THEORY;

CONTRAST IMAGING; CONTRAST RATIO; MECHANICAL INDEXES; MICRO-BUBBLES; NONLINEAR ECHOES; NONLINEAR PROPAGATIONS; PROBE CALIBRATION; SECOND HARMONIC SIGNALS; TIME REVERSAL; TIME-REVERSED; TISSUE PHANTOMS;

TISSUE;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROBUBBLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE INVERSION;

ARTIFACTS; CALIBRATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; COPPER; MICROBUBBLES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 51849168524     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/19/013     Document Type: Article

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