Stability analysis of ultrasound thick-shell contrast agents
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Stability analysis of ultrasound thick-shell contrast agents.
The stability of thick shell encapsulated bubbles is studied analytically. 3-D small perturbations are introduced to the spherical oscillations of a contrast agent bubble in response to a sinusoidal acoustic field with different amplitudes of excitation. The equations of the perturbation amplitudes are derived using asymptotic expansions and linear stability analysis is then applied to the resu...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0001-4966
DOI: 10.1121/1.3666000