G01S 7/52041
Detecting modification of a contrast enhancer
Official title: {detecting modification of a contrast enhancer, e.g. detecting the destruction of a contrast agent by an acoustic wave, e.g. loss of correlation (diagnostic techniques involving the use of contrast agents A61B8/481)}
G01S7/52041 (Detecting modification of a contrast enhancer) appears on 65 US grants and 51 published applications in this corpus.
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