Acoustic characterization of single ultrasound contrast agent microbubbles

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 4091-4097

  Sijl, Jeroen ^a   Gaud, Emmanuel ^b   Frinking, Peter J A ^b   Arditi, Marcel ^b   De Jong, Nico ^a,c   Lohse, Detlef ^a   Versluis, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b Bracco Suisse SA   (Switzerland)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CHARACTERIZATIONS; DIFFERENT SIZES; ECHO WAVEFORMS; MICRO-BUBBLES; NEGATIVE PRESSURES; POWER-SPECTRA; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; SECOND HARMONIC RESPONSE; SIMULATED DATUM; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENTS; VISCO-ELASTIC PROPERTIES;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; RESONANCE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

FREQUENCY RESPONSE;

ACOUSTICS; CONTRAST MEDIA; MICROBUBBLES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PRESSURE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VIBRATION; VISCOELASTIC SUBSTANCES;

EID: 60049087554     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2997437     Document Type: Article

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