Ultrafast Imaging of Ultrasound Contrast Agents

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1908-1916

  Couture, Olivier ^a,b   Bannouf, Souad ^a   Montaldo, Gabriel ^a   Aubry, Jean François ^a   Fink, Mathias ^a   Tanter, Mickael ^a,c  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b Fondation Pierre Gilles de Gennes   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Disruption; Dissolution; Microbubbles; Molecular imaging; Plane waves; Targeted contrast agents; Ultrafast

Indexed keywords

DISSOLUTION; ELASTIC WAVES; SCANNING; ULTRASONICS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

DISRUPTION; MICROBUBBLES; PLANE WAVE; TARGETED CONTRAST AGENTS; ULTRA-FAST;

MOLECULAR IMAGING;

ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; B SCAN; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; MICROBUBBLE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 74249101532     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2009.05.020     Document Type: Article

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