Backscatter Coefficient Measurements Using a Reference Phantom to Extract Depth-Dependent Instrumentation Factors

Ultrasonic Imaging

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1990, Pages 58-70

  Yao, Lin Xin ^a   Zagzebski, James A ^a   Madsen, Ernest L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation coefficient; backscatter coefficient; frequency dependence; tissue mimicking phantom

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACKSCATTER; ECHOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM;

BIOPHYSICS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0025230571     PISSN: 01617346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016173469001200105     Document Type: Article

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