The measurement of ultrasound scattering from individual micron-sized objects and its application in single cell scattering

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 894-902

  Falou, Omar ^a   Rui, Min ^a   El Kaffas, Ahmed ^b   Kumaradas, J Carl ^a   Kolios, Michael C ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNALS; AIR BUBBLES; ELASTIC SPHERE; FLUID SPHERES; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; MICRO-INJECTION; OPTICAL MICROSCOPES; POLYSTYRENE MICRO-SPHERE; SINGLE CELLS; SINGLE OBJECT; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; ULTRASONIC DATA; ULTRASOUND BACKSCATTER; ULTRASOUND IMAGING; ULTRASOUND SCATTERING;

ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; FORECASTING; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; MICROSCOPES; MICROSPHERES; POLYMER BLENDS; POLYSTYRENES; SPHERES; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

MICROSPHERE; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CELL SIZE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROINJECTION; MICROSCOPY; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION SCATTERING; STANDARD; THEORETICAL MODEL; TUMOR CELL LINE;

CALIBRATION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SIZE; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MICROINJECTIONS; MICROSCOPY; MICROSPHERES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYSTYRENES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 77955833725     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3455795     Document Type: Article

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