The use of microbubbles in Doppler ultrasound studies

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 827-838

  Tortoli, Piero ^a   Guidi, Francesco ^a   Mori, Riccardo ^a   Vos, Hendrik J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Doppler; Microbubble deflation; Microbubble rupture; Primary radiation force; Ultrasound contrast agents

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER; MICROBUBBLE DEFLATION; MICROBUBBLE RUPTURE; PRIMARY RADIATION FORCE; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENTS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; DOPPLER EFFECT; DRAG; MICROCIRCULATION; SPECIAL EFFECTS; ULTRASONICS; WAVES;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM;

BLOOD FLOW; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; IN VITRO STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROBUBBLE; MICROCIRCULATION; RADIATION ENERGY; REVIEW; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACOUSTICS; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; MICROBUBBLES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 69049111133     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-008-0423-y     Document Type: Review

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