Simultaneous optical and acoustical observation of microbubbles behaviour

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 1358-1361

  Guidi, Francesco ^a   Tortoli, Piero ^a   Vos, Hendrik J ^b   De Jong, Nico ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acoustically driven deflation; Contrast agents; Microbubbles; Resonance

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICALLY DRIVEN DEFLATION; BACK-SCATTERED; BACKSCATTERED ECHOES; BACKSCATTERED SIGNAL; BUBBLE DIAMETER; CONTRAST AGENTS; MICROBUBBLES; OFF-LINE PROCESSING; OPTICAL OBSERVATIONS; PEAK AMPLITUDE; PHASE CHANGE; PHASE INFORMATION; RADIAL MOTION; REPETITION FREQUENCY; SIGNAL INTENSITIES; SINGLE BUBBLES; SINGLE MICROBUBBLES; TIME INTERVAL; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT; ULTRASOUND EXCITATION; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS;

EXPERIMENTS; RESONANCE; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 69049105344     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2006.349     Document Type: Conference Paper

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