Improving the sensitivity of high-frequency subharmonic imaging with coded excitation: A feasibility study

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2049-2060

  Shekhar, Himanshu ^a   Doyley, Marvin M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b Hopeman Engineering Building 413 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

coded excitation; coronary artery disease; subharmonic imaging; ultrasound contrast agents; vasa vasorum

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CHIRP MODULATION; DISEASES; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

CODED EXCITATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; SUBHARMONIC IMAGING; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT; VASA VASORUM;

BANDWIDTH;

EID: 84861626430     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3694101     Document Type: Article

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