Broadband Reduction of the Second Harmonic Distortion During Nonlinear Ultrasound Wave Propagation

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1568-1580

  Pasovic, Mirza ^a,b   Danilouchkine, Mike ^b   Matte, Guillaume ^b   van der Steen, Antonius F W ^b   Basset, Olivier ^a   de Jong, Nico ^b   Cachard, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Harmonic imaging; Nonlinear propagation; Second harmonic reduction; Ultrasound contrast agent

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC DISTORTION; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC WAVES; WATER TANKS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

AGENT TO TISSUE RATIOS; HARMONIC IMAGING; NON-LINEAR ULTRASOUND; NONLINEAR PROPAGATION; SECOND HARMONIC DISTORTION; SECOND HARMONICS; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT; WATER TANK EXPERIMENTS;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM;

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HARMONIC IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATION; WAVEFORM;

EID: 77956648269     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2010.06.006     Document Type: Review

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