Dual high-frequency difference excitation for contrast detection

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2164-2176

  Yen, Chih Kuang ^a   Su, Shin Yuan ^a   Shen, Che Chou ^b   Li, Meng N ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BLOOD VESSELS; ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; HARMONIC GENERATION; MOTION ESTIMATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL); RESONANCE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC DEVICES; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

CONTRAST AGENTS; DUAL-FREQUENCY; EXCITATION PULSES; EXCITATION TECHNIQUES; FLOW PHANTOMS; FREQUENCY DIFFERENCES; HIGH-FREQUENCY; IMAGING RESOLUTIONS; MICROBUBBLE; MICROBUBBLE DETECTIONS; MICROBUBBLES; NON-LINEAR RESPONSES; NONLINEAR OSCILLATIONS; NONLINEAR SCATTERINGS; PHANTOM EXPERIMENTS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; PULSE PRESSURES; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENTS;

FREQUENCY RESPONSE;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBUBBLE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROBUBBLES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SONICATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 54049122299     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.916     Document Type: Article

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