Pulse subtraction time delay imaging method for ultrasound contrast agent detection

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1151-1158

  Borsboom, Jerome M G ^a   Bouakaz, Ayache ^b   De Jong, Nico ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Université de Tours   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-PULSE; CONTRAST AGENT; CONTRAST-TO-TISSUE RATIO; CURRENT INPUT; ECHO SIGNALS; IMAGING METHOD; IN-VITRO; MICROBUBBLES; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR SCATTERING; RESEARCH TOPICS; SIMULATION RESULT; SINGLE PULSE; SYSTEM BEHAVIORS; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT;

TISSUE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 67651166939     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2009.1157     Document Type: Article

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