Ultrasound contrast plane wave imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2676-2683

  Couture, Olivier ^a   Fink, Mathias ^b   Tanter, Mickael ^a  

^a INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PRESSURES; CLINICAL SCANNERS; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; CONTRAST IMAGING; CONVENTIONAL IMAGING; MICRO-BUBBLE; MICROBUBBLES; NEGATIVE PRESSURES; NONLINEAR IMAGING; PEAK PRESSURE; PERFUSION IMAGING; PLANE WAVE; PLANE-WAVE TRANSMISSION; SIMILAR IMAGE; ULTRA-FAST; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST; VASCULATURE; VESSEL PHANTOM;

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

ELASTIC WAVES;

AGAR; CELLULOSE; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBUBBLE; PRESSURE;

AGAR; CELLULOSE; CONTRAST MEDIA; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROBUBBLES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PRESSURE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84870992829     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2012.2508     Document Type: Article

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