Pulse inversion sequences for mechanically scanned transducers

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2154-2163

  Frijlink, Martijn E ^a,d   Goertz, David E ^a,b,e   De Jong, Nico ^a,b,c   Van Der Steen, Antonius F W ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^e SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL IMAGING; POLARIZATION; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

CONTRAST IMAGING; HIGH FREQUENCIES; IMAGING; IN-VIVO; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUNDS; MICROBUBBLE; MICROBUBBLE DETECTIONS; MOTION EFFECTS; MULTIPULSE; NONLINEAR; PULSE INVERSIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; SUPPRESSION LEVELS; TISSUE HARMONIC IMAGING; TISSUE IMAGING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MICRO-ELECTRICAL-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 54049138086     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.915     Document Type: Article

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