Microbubble destruction by dual-high-frequency ultrasound excitation

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1113-1118

  Yeh, Chih Kuang ^a   Su, Shin Yuan ^a   Shen, Che Chou ^b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PRESSURES; BIO-EFFECTS; CARRIER FREQUENCY; CARRIER SIGNALS; CONTRAST AGENT; DESTRUCTION EFFICIENCY; DIFFERENCE FREQUENCY; DRIVING FORCES; DUAL FREQUENCY; DUAL-FREQUENCY EXCITATION; HIGH FREQUENCY; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUNDS; HIGH PRESSURE; LOW FREQUENCY; LOWER ENVELOPES; MICRO-BUBBLE; MICROBUBBLES; PULSE LENGTH; SAMPLE VOLUME; SIMULTANEOUS TRANSMISSION; SINUSOIDAL PULSE; SMALL SAMPLES; TONE BURSTS; WAVE FORMS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ALGORITHM; CHEMISTRY; ECHOGRAPHY; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; MICROBUBBLE;

ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; MICROBUBBLES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 67650479409     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2009.1145     Document Type: Article

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