Contrast-Enhanced Intravascular Ultrasound Pulse Sequences for Bandwidth-Limited Transducers

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 706-713

  Maresca, David ^a   Renaud, Guillaume ^a   van Soest, Gijs ^a   Li, Xiang ^b   Zhou, Qifa ^b   Shung, K Kirk ^b   De Jong, Nico ^a,c,d   Van der Steen, Antonius F W ^a,c  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chirp; Coded excitation; Intravascular ultrasound; Pulse inversion; Ultraharmonic; Ultrasound contrast agents; Ultrasound contrast imaging; Vasa vasorum

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BLOOD VESSELS; TISSUE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

CHIRP; CODED EXCITATION; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; PULSE INVERSION; ULTRAHARMONIC; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST IMAGING; VASA VASORUM;

ULTRASONICS;

PERFLUTREN; UCA DEFINITY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; VASA VASORUM;

EID: 84875092168     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2012.10.020     Document Type: Article

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