Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
Volume 28, Issue 1 , Pages 59-68 , January 2002

Super harmonic imaging: a new imaging technique for improved contrast detection

  • Ayache Bouakaz

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: Dr A Bouakaz, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Thoraxcentre, Room Ee 23.02, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    • Experimental Echocardiography, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    • Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands (ICIN), Utrecht, The Netherlands
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  • Sigmund Frigstad

      Affiliations

    • GE Vingmed Ultrasound, Trondheim, Norway
    • ,
  • Folkert J Ten Cate

      Affiliations

    • University Hospital Dijkzigt, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Nico de Jong

      Affiliations

    • Experimental Echocardiography, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    • Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands (ICIN), Utrecht, The Netherlands

Received 5 April 2001 ,Accepted 21 August 2001.

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Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
Volume 28, Issue 1 , Pages 59-68 , January 2002

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