A three-dimensional model of an ultrasound contrast agent gas bubble and its mechanical effects on microvessels

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 785-808

  Hosseinkhah, N ^a,b   Hynynen, K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FREQUENCY; ACOUSTIC PRESSURES; ACOUSTICAL PARAMETERS; BLOOD VISCOSITY; BUBBLE BEHAVIOUR; BUBBLE MODELS; BUBBLE OSCILLATION; BUBBLE RADIUS; BUBBLE WALL; CIRCUMFERENTIAL STRESS; FLUID SHEAR; GAS BUBBLE; LOW PRESSURES; MAXIMUM BUBBLE RADII; MAXIMUM SHEARS; MECHANICAL EFFECTS; MECHANICAL STRESS; MICRO-BUBBLE; MICROBUBBLES; MICROVESSELS; MUSHROOM SHAPE; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; SYNERGISTIC EFFECT; THERAPEUTIC EFFECTS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT; VESSEL RADIUS; VESSEL RUPTURE; VESSEL WALLS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BLOOD VESSELS; ELASTICITY; FLUIDS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RIGIDITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONICS; VISCOSITY;

STRESSES;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; GAS; HUMAN; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBUBBLE; MICROCIRCULATION; OSCILLOMETRY; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISCOSITY;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; ELASTICITY; GASES; HUMANS; MICROBUBBLES; MICROCIRCULATION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OSCILLOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84856104382     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/3/785     Document Type: Article

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