Pulse inversion chirp coded tissue harmonic imaging (PI-CTHI) of zebrafish heart using high frame rate ultrasound biomicroscopy

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 41-52

  Park, Jinhyoung ^a   Huang, Ying ^b   Chen, Ruimin ^a   Lee, Jungwoo ^d   Cummins, Thomas M ^a   Zhou, Qifa ^a   Lien, Ching Ling ^b,c   Shung, K K ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Kwangwoon University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Chirp coded excitation; High frequency ultrasound; Tissue harmonic imaging; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

BAND PASS; BLOOD CLOTS; CODED EXCITATION; CONTRAST RESOLUTION; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; ECHO SIGNALS; HIGH FRAME RATE; HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUNDS; LATERAL DIRECTIONS; LITHIUM NIOBATE; PHANTOM STUDIES; PULSE INVERSION; SIDELOBE LEVELS; SINGLE ELEMENT TRANSDUCERS; SMALL ANIMAL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TISSUE HARMONIC IMAGING; TUNGSTEN WIRES; ULTRASOUND BIOMICROSCOPY; ZEBRAFISH;

BANDPASS FILTERS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; TISSUE; TUNGSTEN; WIRE;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; HEART MUSCLE; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; MYOCARDIUM; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84871626280     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-012-0636-y     Document Type: Article

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