Effect of bubble shell nonlinearity on ultrasound nonlinear propagation through microbubble populations

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Tang, Meng Xing ^a   Loughran, Jonathan ^a   Stride, Eleanor ^b   Zhang, Dong ^c   Eckersley, Robert J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; CONTRAST-TO-TISSUE RATIO; MICRO-BUBBLE; MICROBUBBLE DYNAMICS; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR PROPAGATION; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PARAMETERS CHARACTERIZING; PROPAGATION MODELS; QUANTITATIVE PREDICTION; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

COATINGS; ULTRASONICS;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

CONTRAST AGENT BR1; CONTRAST MEDIUM; PHOSPHOLIPID; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; MICROBUBBLE; MOTION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRESSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOUND; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASOUND; PROCEDURES;

ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; MICROBUBBLES; MOTION; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PRESSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOUND; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 79953046783     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3544677     Document Type: Article

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