A dual-frequency excitation technique for enhancing the sub-harmonic emission from encapsulated microbubbles

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 4257-4272

  Zhang, Dong ^a   Xi, Xiaoyu ^a   Zhang, Zhe ^a   Gong, Xiufen ^a   Chen, Gong ^b   Wu, Junru ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Jiangsu Province Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine   (China)

^c University of Vermont ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE RATIOS; DUAL-FREQUENCY EXCITATION; DUAL-FREQUENCY SIGNALS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; IN-VITRO; MICROBUBBLES; NUMBER OF CYCLES; OPTIMUM VALUE; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCIES; SINGLE FREQUENCY; SINUSOIDAL EXCITATIONS; SUBHARMONICS; THEORETICAL SIMULATION; TISSUE SIGNALS; TONE BURSTS; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; PHASE SHIFT; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENCAPSULATION; EXCITATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROBUBBLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROBUBBLES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 70249119345     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/13/019     Document Type: Article

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