High-resolution, high-contrast ultrasound imaging using a prototype dual-frequency transducer: In vitro and in vivo studies

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1772-1781

  Gessner, Ryan ^a   Lukacs, Marc ^b   Lee, Mike ^b   Cherin, Emmanuel ^b   Foster, F Stuart ^b   Dayton, Paul A ^a  

^a USA and North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODELS OF DISEASE; BLOOD FLOW; CONTRAST AGENT; CONTRAST ENHANCED ULTRASOUND; CONTRAST IMAGING; CONTRAST-ENHANCED IMAGES; CONTRAST-TO-TISSUE RATIO; DECORRELATIONS; DETECTION METHODS; DUAL FREQUENCY; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; HIGH CONTRAST; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH RESOLUTION; IN-VITRO; LOW FREQUENCY; MICROBUBBLE CONTRAST AGENTS; MICROBUBBLES; MICROVASCULAR; NONLINEAR BEHAVIOR; OPTIMAL RESPONSE; RADIATION FORCES; RESONANT FREQUENCIES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TARGETED IMAGING; TISSUE MOTION; ULTRASOUND ENERGY;

NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PROBES; TISSUE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; KIDNEY; KIDNEY CIRCULATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBUBBLE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TRANSDUCER; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CATTLE; CONTRAST MEDIA; KIDNEY; MICROBUBBLES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RENAL CIRCULATION; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 77955385744     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2010.1615     Document Type: Article

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