Parametric Perfusion Imaging Based on Low-Cost Ultrasound Platform

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 130-144

  Gu, Xiaolin ^a   Zhong, Hui ^a   Wan, Mingxi ^a   Hu, Xiaowen ^a   Lv, Dan ^a   Shen, Liang ^a   Zhang, Xiaomei ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Blood perfusion; Contrast agents; Parametric imaging; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PERFUSION; COMBINED PULSE; CONTRAST AGENT; CONTRAST-TO-TISSUE RATIO; FLOW PHANTOM; IMAGE PLANE; IMAGING METHOD; LOGARITHMIC COMPRESSION; LOW-COST ULTRASOUND; MEAN TRANSIT TIME; PARAMETRIC IMAGING; PEAK VALUES; PEAK WIDTHS; PERFUSION IMAGES; PERFUSION IMAGING; PULSE-INVERSION; RABBIT KIDNEY; REGIONS OF INTEREST; SIMPLE OPERATION; TIME-INTENSITY CURVES; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BLOOD; IMAGE PROCESSING; TEMPERATURE INDICATING CAMERAS; ULTRASONIC DEVICES; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FLOW KINETICS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; AREA UNDER CURVE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONTRAST MEDIA; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KIDNEY; PERFUSION IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RABBITS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 72149093837     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2009.09.002     Document Type: Article

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