Echogenic Biomaterials for Medical Ultrasound Tracking

As the world population ages, hospital discharges of geriatric patients to nursing homes have increased. Patients with peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) are routinely discharged with the catheters in place. PICCs, only capable of being tracked through x-ray imaging, will routinely expe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Contreras, Jerry
Other Authors: Materials Science and Engineering
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/99169