A Method for Determination of Frequency-Dependent Effective Scatterer Number Density

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 77-85

  Zagzebski, James A ^a   Madsen, Ernest L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHANTOM; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND;

ACOUSTICS; HUMAN; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFERENCE VALUES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0028036170     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.408300     Document Type: Article

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