Multi-frequency harmonic arrays: Initial experience with a novel transducer concept for nonlinear contrast imaging

Ultrasonics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 79-85

  Forsberg, Flemming ^a   Shi, William T ^a,d   Jadidian, Bahram ^b,e   Winder, Alan A ^c,e  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Layered Manufacturing Inc   (United States)

^c Acoustic Sciences Associates   (United States)

^d GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

^e J and W Medical LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Harmonic imaging; Subharmonic imaging; Transducer arrays; Transducer design; Ultrasound contrast agent

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; NOZZLES; TISSUE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

HARMONIC IMAGING; SUBHARMONIC IMAGING; TRANSDUCER ARRAYS; TRANSDUCER DESIGN; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; METHODOLOGY; TRANSDUCER;

ACOUSTICS; CONTRAST MEDIA; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 9644272880     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2004.04.005     Document Type: Article

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