The Effect of Preactivation Vial Temperature on the Acoustic Properties of Definity TM

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1298-1305

  Helfield, Brandon L ^a,b   Huo, Xuan ^b   Williams, Ross ^b   Goertz, David E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Contrast agent; Contrast imaging; Definity; Microbubbles; Nonlinear imaging; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; CONTRAST AGENT; CONTRAST IMAGING; DEFINITY; MICROBUBBLES; NONLINEAR IMAGING;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION;

PERFLUTREN;

ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CONTAINER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; HEATING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; PHANTOM; PREACTIVATION VIAL TEMPERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; REFRIGERATOR; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; VIAL;

CONTRAST MEDIA; DRUG PACKAGING; DRUG STABILITY; FLUOROCARBONS; HIGH-ENERGY SHOCK WAVES; MATERIALS TESTING; RADIATION DOSAGE; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84861911926     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2012.03.005     Document Type: Article

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