Statistical uncertainty in estimates of an effective scatterer number density for ultrasound

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 2556-2563

  Chen, Jian Feng ^a   Zagzebski, James A ^a   Madsen, Ernest L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ARTICLE; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; ULTRASOUND;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; STATISTICS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0028109429     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.411314     Document Type: Article

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