Describing small-scale structure in random media using pulse-echo ultrasound

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 1990, Pages 179-192

  Wagner, Robert F ^b   Brown, David G ^b   Hall, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR DEVICES AND RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ULTRASOUND; WAVEFORM;

MODELS, THEORETICAL; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 0025343519     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.399283     Document Type: Article

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