Harmonic ultrasound imaging of nanosized contrast agents for multimodal molecular diagnoses

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1848-1856

  Conversano, Francesco ^a   Greco, Antonio ^a   Casciaro, Ernesto ^a   Ragusa, Andrea ^b   Lay Ekuakille, Aimé ^c   Casciaro, Sergio ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL NANOTECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biomedical image processing; biomedical signal processing; cancer detection; medical diagnostic imaging; molecular imaging; nanoparticles; phantoms

Indexed keywords

BIO-MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; CANCER DETECTION; MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS; PHANTOMS;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IRON OXIDES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SILICA; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84862272454     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2012.2192354     Document Type: Article

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