Counter-propagating wave interaction for contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 21, 2012, Pages

  Renaud, G ^a   Bosch, J G ^a   Ten Kate, G L ^a   Shamdasani, V ^b   Entrekin, R ^b   De Jong, N ^a,c   Van Der Steen, A F W ^a,c  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; CONTRAST AGENT; CONTRAST ENHANCED ULTRASOUND; COUNTER PROPAGATION; COUNTERPROPAGATING WAVES; GAS MICROBUBBLES; IN-VITRO; LINEAR PROPAGATION; MICROBUBBLES; NONLINEAR PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR SCATTERING; PULSE SEQUENCE; TISSUE-MIMICKING MATERIALS; ULTRASOUND SCANNERS; WAVEFORM DISTORTIONS;

ACOUSTICS; DIAGNOSIS; SCANNING; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

WAVE TRANSMISSION;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CAROTID ARTERY; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MICROBUBBLE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM;

ARTIFACTS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CONTRAST MEDIA; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROBUBBLES; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84868010022     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/21/L9     Document Type: Article

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