Fast simulation of second harmonic ultrasound field using a quasi-linear method

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 131, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 4365-4375

  Prieir, Fabrice ^a   Johansen, Tonni Franke ^b   Holm, Sverre ^a   Torp, Hans ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIAL PROFILES; BODY WALLS; COMPUTATION TIME; FAST SIMULATION; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING; NONLINEAR PROPAGATION; OFF-AXIS; QUASI-LINEAR; SECOND HARMONICS; SPATIAL DIMENSION; TISSUE HARMONIC IMAGING; TRANSVERSE PROFILE; ULTRASOUND ECHO; ULTRASOUND FIELDS; ULTRASOUND PULSE;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FREQUENCY BANDS; TISSUE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC ABSORPTION; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

EID: 84873803008     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4714773     Document Type: Article

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