Ambient pressure dependence of the ultra-harmonic response from contrast microbubbles

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 131, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 4358-4364

  Sun, Tao ^a   Jia, Nan ^a   Zhang, Dong ^a   Xu, Di ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC EQUIPMENT;

ACOUSTIC PRESSURES; AMBIENT PRESSURES; DRIVING FREQUENCIES; GAUSSIAN PULSE; HIGH LINEARITY; OVER-PRESSURES; SUB-HARMONIC RESPONSE; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 84919344000     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4707512     Document Type: Article

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