Applying real-time noninvasive pressure estimation obtained from subharmonic contrast microbubble signals

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1694-1697

  Forsberg, Flemming ^a   Dave, Jaydev ^a,b   Halldorsdottir, Valgerdur G ^a,b   Leodore, Lauren M ^a,b   Lin, Feng ^c   Hall, Anne L ^d   Thomenius, Kai ^c  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast agents; Pressure estimation; Subharmonic signals; Ultrasound scanner

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PRESSURES; CONTRAST AGENT; CONTRAST AGENTS; CONTRAST-ENHANCED; EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEM; FREQUENCY RANGES; GE HEALTHCARES; HEART CAVITIES; IN-VITRO; LONG-TERM GOALS; MICRO-BUBBLE; NONINVASIVE ESTIMATION; OPTIMAL PARAMETER; OPTIMAL SENSITIVITY; PRESSURE ESTIMATION; PRESSURE RANGES; SECOND HARMONICS; SINGLE ELEMENT TRANSDUCERS; SUBHARMONIC; SUBHARMONIC CONTRAST MICROBUBBLE SIGNALS; SUBHARMONIC IMAGING; SUBHARMONIC SIGNALS; TRANSMIT FREQUENCY; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ACOUSTIC WAVES; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSELS; ESTIMATION; HEALTH CARE; HYDRAULICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; LINEAR REGRESSION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; SCANNING; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 67649386506     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2008.0414     Document Type: Conference Paper

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