Measurement of the attenuation coefficient for monodisperse populations of ultrasound contrast agents

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1964-1966

  Gong, Yanjun ^a   Cabodi, Mario ^b   Porter, Tyrone M ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; FREQUENCY RANGES; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT ATTENUATION; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; MONO-DISPERSE; NARROW SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

EID: 77951007606     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333441     Document Type: Conference Paper

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