Second harmonic inversion for ultrasound contrast harmonic imaging

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3163-3180

  Pasovic, Mirza ^a,b   Danilouchkine, Mike ^a   Faez, Telli ^a   Van Neer, Paul L M J ^a   Cachard, Christian ^b   Van Der Steen, Antonius F W ^a   Basset, Olivier ^b   De Jong, Nico ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

AGENT TO TISSUE RATIOS; GENERAL EXPRESSION; NONLINEAR BEHAVIOR; NONLINEAR PROPAGATION; SECOND-HARMONIC IMAGING; TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOM; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; PRESSURE; ULTRASOUND;

CONTRAST MEDIA; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PRESSURE; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 79956151016     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/11/001     Document Type: Article

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