Acoustic Sizing of an Ultrasound Contrast Agent

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1713-1721

  Maresca, David ^a   Emmer, Marcia ^a   van Neer, Paul L M J ^a   Vos, Hendrik J ^a   Versluis, Michel ^b   Muller, Marie ^a,c   de Jong, Nico ^a,b,d   van der Steen, Antonius F W ^a,d  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

^d ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acoustic bubble sizing; Definity ; High frequency; Single bubbles; Size distribution; Ultrasound contrast agent

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RESPONSE; BACK-SCATTERED; BUBBLE SIZE; CROSS SECTION; DEFINITY; HIGH FREQUENCY; IN-VIVO; MEAN DIAMETER; MICRO-BUBBLE; MICROBUBBLES; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; SINGLE BUBBLES; SIZE DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENTS; SIZE MEASUREMENTS; STANDARD DEVIATION; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT;

RESONANCE; SIZE DETERMINATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION;

ULTRASONICS;

PERFLUTREN;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; MEASUREMENT; MICROBUBBLE; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ACOUSTICS; CALIBRATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; FLUOROCARBONS; MICROBUBBLES; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PHENOMENA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 77956639003     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2010.06.014     Document Type: Article

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