Estimation of mechanical properties of a viscoelastic medium using a laser-induced microbubble interrogated by an acoustic radiation force

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2241-2248

  Yoon, Sangpil ^a   Aglyamov, Salavat R ^a   Karpiouk, Andrei B ^a   Kim, Seungsoo ^a   Emelianov, Stanislav Y ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE; BUBBLE MOTION; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; LASER INDUCED; LASER-INDUCED CAVITATION; MICRO-BUBBLE; MICROBUBBLES; NANOSECOND PULSED LASER; NUMERICAL APERTURE; OBJECTIVE LENS; THEORETICAL MODELS; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS; VISCOELASTIC MEDIUM; WORKING DISTANCES;

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ACOUSTIC RADIATORS; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; PULSED LASERS; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELASTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; LENS; MICROBUBBLE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOLID STATE LASER; SWINE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER; VISCOSITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MICROBUBBLES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SWINE; TRANSDUCERS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 82255163974     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3628344     Document Type: Article

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