Estimating concentration of ultrasound contrast agents with backscatter coefficients: Experimental and theoretical aspects

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2295-2305

  Leithem, Scott M ^a   Lavarello, Roberto J ^a,b   O'Brien, William D ^a   Oelze, Michael L ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; DEFINITY; EXPERIMENTAL ASPECTS; IN-VITRO; MEASUREMENTS OF; NONINVASIVE METHODS; TARGET SITES; THEORETICAL ASPECTS; THERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUES; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT;

NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84858988400     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3681951     Document Type: Article

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