Investigation of acoustic changes resulting from contrast enhancement in through-transmission ultrasonic imaging

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1395-1404

  Rothstein, Tamara ^a   Gaitini, Diana ^b   Gallimidi, Zahava ^b   Azhari, Haim ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Amplitude attenuation; Coded excitation; Contrast enhanced ultrasound; Nonlinearity; Through transmission; Time of flight

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE ATTENUATION; CODED EXCITATION; CONTRAST ENHANCED ULTRASOUND; NON-LINEARITY; THROUGH TRANSMISSION; TIME OF FLIGHT;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; BLOOD VESSELS; CONTRAST MEDIA; IMAGING SYSTEMS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

ULTRASONICS;

ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM; LATEX; PERFLUTREN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 77956024421     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2010.05.024     Document Type: Article

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