Contrast agent response to chirp reversal: Simulations, optical observations, and acoustical verification

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1199-1206

  Novell, Anthony ^a,b   Van Der Meer, Sander ^c   Versluis, Michel ^c   De Jong, Nico ^c,d   Bouakaz, Ayache ^a  

^a CHRU de Tours   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICAL MEASUREMENTS; AT RESONANCE; CENTER FREQUENCY; CONTRAST AGENT; EXCITATION SIGNALS; MICRO-BUBBLE; MODIFIED RAYLEIGH; OPTICAL DATA; OPTICAL OBSERVATIONS; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; RESONANCE PHENOMENA; TIME-REVERSED; WAVE FORMS;

RESONANCE;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 67651180899     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2009.1161     Document Type: Article

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