The conical scanner: A two transducer ultrasound scatter imaging technique

Ultrasonic Imaging

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1981, Pages 62-82

  Foster, F S ^a   Patterson, M S ^a   Arditi, M ^a   Hunt, J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Imaging; scatter; transducer; ultrasonics

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; SCATTERING; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 0019523621     PISSN: 01617346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016173468100300103     Document Type: Article

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