Investigation on the inertial cavitation threshold and shell properties of commercialized ultrasound contrast agent microbubbles

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1622-1631

  Guo, Xiasheng ^a   Li, Qian ^a   Zhang, Zhe ^a   Zhang, Dong ^a   Tu, Juan ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PULSE LENGTHS; CLINICAL APPLICATION; DILATATIONAL VISCOSITY; INERTIAL CAVITATION THRESHOLD; PASSIVE CAVITATION DETECTION; THERAPEUTIC APPLICATION; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT; VISCOUS COEFFICIENTS;

CAVITATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODELS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS);

ALBUMINOID; CONTRAST AGENT BR1; CONTRAST MEDIUM; PHOSPHOLIPID; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; MICROBUBBLE; MOTION; PARTICLE SIZE; SOUND; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND; VISCOSITY;

ALBUMINS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; ELASTICITY; MICROBUBBLES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; SOUND; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84882405230     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4812887     Document Type: Article

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