Phase-transition thresholds and vaporization phenomena for ultrasound phase-change nanoemulsions assessed via high-speed optical microscopy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 4513-4534

  Sheeran, Paul S ^a   Matsunaga, Terry O ^b   Dayton, Paul A ^a  

^a USA and North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICAL TECHNIQUES; ACTIVATION THRESHOLDS; CLINICAL APPLICATION; CLINICAL DIAGNOSTICS; OPTICAL TECHNIQUE; RESOLUTION LIMITS; TEMPORAL SPECIFICITIES; ULTRASOUND PARAMETERS;

DROPS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTICAL ENGINEERING; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; ULTRASONICS; VAPORIZATION;

VAPORS;

NANOPARTICLE; EMULSION; GAS;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EMULSION; GAS; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITION; RADIATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIDEO MICROSCOPY; ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; RADIATION RESPONSE;

EMULSIONS; GASES; HIGH-ENERGY SHOCK WAVES; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; NANOPARTICLES; PHASE TRANSITION; RADIATION DOSAGE; SONICATION;

EID: 84879488283     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/58/13/4513     Document Type: Article

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