Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
Volume 28, Issue 4 , Pages 483-494 , April 2002

Optimal pulse-inversion imaging for microsphere contrast agents

  • Anil J. Reddy

      Affiliations

    • Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
    • ,
  • Andrew J. Szeri

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: Prof. A. J. Szeri, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-1740 USA
    • Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

Received 20 July 2001 ,Accepted 6 February 2002.

References 

  1. AIUM . Technical report; Acoustic output measurements and labeling standard for diagnostic ultrasound equipment. Bethesda, MD: American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine; 1992;
  2. Apfel RE, Holland CK. Gaging the likelihood of cavitation from short-pulse, low-duty cycle diagnostic ultrasound. Ultrasound Med Biol. 1991;17:179–185
  3. Batchelor GK. An introduction to fluid dynamics. Cambridge, UK: University Press; 1967;
  4. Doedel EJ, Champneys AR, Fairgrieve TF, et al.  AUTO 97 (Continuation and bifurcation software for ordinary differential equations). 1997; ftp://ftp.cs.concordia.ca/pub/doedel/auto
  5. FDA . Technical report; 510(k) guide for measuring and reporting acoustic output of diagnostic medical devices. Washington, DC: Center for Devices and Radiological Health, US FDA; 1985;
  6. Goldberg BB, Liu JB, Forsberg F. Ultrasound contrast agents (A review). Ultrasound Med Biol. 1994;20:319–333
  7. Hagen-Ansert SL. Textbook of diagnostic ultrasonography. St. Louis: MO C.V. Mosby Co; 1983;
  8. Hilgenfeldt S, Lohse D, Zomack M. Response of bubbles to diagnostic ultrasound (A unifying theoretical approach). Eur Phys J B. 1998;4:247–255
  9. Morgan K, Averkiou M, Ferrara K. The effect of the phase of transmission on contrast agent echoes. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelec Freq Control. 1998;45:872–875
  10. Moss WC, Levatin JL, Szeri AJ. A new damping mechanism in strongly collapsing bubbles. Proc Roy Soc Lond Series A. 2000;456:2983–2994
  11. Simpson DH, Chin CT, Burns PN. Pulse inversion Doppler (A new method for detecting nonlinear echoes from microbubble contrast agents). IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelec Freq Control. 1999;46:372–382

PII: S0301-5629(02)00494-5

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
Volume 28, Issue 4 , Pages 483-494 , April 2002

Article Tools

* Image Usage & Resolution