Effects of acoustic parameters on sonothrombolysis with contrast microbubbles

IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1786-1789

  Arditi, Marcel ^a   Gaud, Emmanuel ^a   Petit, Bénédicte ^a,b   Yan, Feng ^a   Frinking, Peter ^a   Allémann, Eric ^b   Tranquart, François ^a  

^a Bracco Suisse SA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

beam; cavitation; destruction; lysis profile; microbubbles; model; rtPA; Sonothrombolysis

Indexed keywords

BEAM; DESTRUCTION; LYSIS PROFILE; MICROBUBBLES; RTPA; SONOTHROMBOLYSIS;

CAVITATION; MODELS; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84869069147     PISSN: 19485719     EISSN: 19485727     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2011.0446     Document Type: Conference Paper

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