Ultrasonic characterization of ultrasound contrast agents

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 861-873

  de Jong, Nico ^a   Emmer, Marcia ^a   van Wamel, Annemieke ^a   Versluis, Michel ^b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERED ULTRASOUND; BUBBLE CHARACTERISTICS; CONTRAST AGENT; CONTRAST-ENHANCED IMAGING; HARMONIC ENERGY; HIGHER HARMONICS; MICROBUBBLES; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; OPTICAL METHODS; RESONANT SYSTEMS; SUBHARMONICS; ULTRASONIC CHARACTERIZATION; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT; ULTRASOUND FIELDS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM; PERFLEXANE; PERFLUBUTANE; PERFLUTREN; SONOVUE; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROBUBBLE; OPTICS; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACOUSTICS; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; MICROBUBBLES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VIBRATION;

EID: 69049107408     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-009-0497-1     Document Type: Article

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