Ultrasonic signal processing for in vivo attenuation measurement: Short time fourier analysis

Ultrasonic Imaging

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1983, Pages 117-135

  Fink, M ^a   Hottier, F ^a   Cardoso, J F ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attenuation; diffraction; impulse response; instantaneous frequency; liver; spectral analysis; tissue characterization

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LIVER; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMAL; BIOPHYSICS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LIVER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOUND; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0020962123     PISSN: 01617346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016173468300500202     Document Type: Article

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