A review of single microbubble acoustics

20th International Congress on Acoustics 2010, ICA 2010 - Incorporating Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Conference of the Australian Acoustical Society

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 710-714

  Sboros, Vassilis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RESPONSE; DECAY MECHANISMS; HIGH QUALITY DATA; LIVER DIAGNOSIS; MICRO-BUBBLE; MICROVASCULAR; NARROW TUBING; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; SAMPLE SIZES; SIGNAL DISTRIBUTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING RESEARCH; TRANSIENT CAVITATION;

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