Microvascular Flow Estimation by Microbubble-Assisted Nakagami Imaging

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 653-671

  Tsui, Po Hsiang ^a   Yeh, Chih Kuang ^b   Chang, Chien Cheng ^a,c  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Contrast agent; Microbubble; Microcirculation; Nakagami parameter

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS; B-MODE IMAGES; BACK-SCATTERED; BLOOD FLOWS; COMPLEMENTARY TOOLS; CONTRAST AGENT; FLOW ESTIMATIONS; IN-VIVO; MICROBUBBLE; MICROVASCULAR; NAKAGAMI; NAKAGAMI PARAMETER; PARAMETRIC IMAGES; PHANTOM MEASUREMENTS; RATE OF INCREASE; REGION OF INTERESTS; SIGNAL ENVELOPES; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TIME-INTENSITY CURVES;

BLOOD; FLOW VELOCITY; MICROCIRCULATION; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; TEMPERATURE INDICATING CAMERAS; VELOCITY;

RATE CONSTANTS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; FLOW RATE; IMAGING; MICROBUBBLE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROVASCULARIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONTRAST MEDIA; EYE; HUMANS; MICROBUBBLES; MICROCIRCULATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RABBITS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 62849112309     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2008.10.001     Document Type: Article

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