Imaging the destruction of individual ultrasound contrast microbubbles with diagnostic ultrasound

Acoustic Research Letters Online

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages 165-169

  Guan, Jingfeng ^a   Matula, Thomas J ^a   Averkiou, Michalakis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PRESSURE; COLOR DOPPLER MODE; DIAGNOSTIC ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST MICROBUBBLES (UCA);

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; BUBBLE FORMATION; COLOR; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DOPPLER EFFECT; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 9144247156     PISSN: 15297853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1795311     Document Type: Article

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