Dual-high-frequency ultrasound excitation on microbubble destruction volume

Ultrasonics

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 698-703

  Shen, Che Chou ^a   Su, Shin Yuan ^b   Cheng, Chih Hao ^b   Yeh, Chih Kuang ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Destruction sample volume; Dual frequency excitation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PRESSURES; AIR BUBBLES; AMPLITUDE MODULATED; B-MODE IMAGES; BIO-EFFECTS; CENTER FREQUENCY; CONTRAST AGENT; DIFFERENCE FREQUENCY; DUAL-FREQUENCY EXCITATION; FOCUSED TRANSDUCER; FRACTIONAL BANDWIDTHS; HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUNDS; INERTIAL CAVITATION; MICRO-BUBBLE; MICROBUBBLES; PENETRATION DEPTH; REGION OF INTEREST; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; SAMPLE VOLUME; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; AUTOCORRELATION; RESONANCE; ULTRASONICS;

TRANSDUCERS;

CONTRAST AGENT BR1; CONTRAST MEDIUM; PHOSPHOLIPID; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBUBBLE; TRANSDUCER;

CONTRAST MEDIA; MICROBUBBLES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 77953277093     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2010.02.005     Document Type: Article

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