Harfield, C J*; Ovenden, N C*; Memoli, G; Jones, P H*; Stride, E P J* (2013) Theoretical characterisation of the radial and translational motion of coated microbubbles under acoustic excitation. J. Phys.: Conf. Ser., 457. 012001

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Abstract

Ultrasound contrast agents, in the form of coated microbubbles, are a powerful tool in current diagnostic imaging and given their sensitive dynamic response they also have the potential to be used for quantitative measurements of the properties of the surrounding tissue (e.g. percentage perfusion or blood pressure). For this potential to be realised, however, the theoretical descriptions of bubble behaviour, in particular the microbubble shell, need to be improved and a method developed for the accurate characterisation of individual bubbles. In this paper the first steps are taken towards deriving a complete model for the coupled radial and translational motion of a coated bubble. It is then shown that with this model the bubble can be characterised by a unique set of shell parameters.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	microbubbles, modelling, ultrasound constrast agents
Subjects:	Acoustics Acoustics > Ultrasound
Identification number/DOI:	10.1088/1742-6596/457/1/012001
Last Modified:	02 Feb 2018 13:14
URI:	http://eprintspublications.npl.co.uk/id/eprint/6010

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